[UConn Hartford]

Instructor: Thomas Shea

This course in the Short Story will center on a nexus of three valences:

• CSI Detective thinking via authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)
• Diverse, International authors (e.g. Polish, British, Indian, Irish, American)
• Collections of short stories as coherent, organic wholes (e.g. James Joyce’s Dubliners, Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time).

We will also take full advantage of the Wadsworth Atheneum, exploring links between our short stories and the various artistic masterpieces one-half block away.

Course grades will be based on active, verbal class participation (50% of your semester grade), occasional brief writings, a midterm essay, and a final essay (all writing combined is the other 50% of your semester grade). There is usually no final exam.

CA 1, W
TOI-1, TOI-2, W

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