CWL 267

Fall 2022

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The Short Story
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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as ENGL 245. See ENGL 245.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts
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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
33951
Lecture-Discussion
P
11:00AM -11:50AM
MWF
150 English Building
Gomez, T
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/22-12/07/22
Degree Notes:
Humanities - Lit & Arts course.
Section Info:
FA22 - ENGL 245 - The Short Story, Tai Gomez The Gothic Short Story "This course will primarily focus on Gothic short fiction of the 19th century—authors like Edgar Allen Poe, Oscar Wilde, E. Nesbit, and others. We will read the stories of these authors in depth and explore the influence they had upon later authors of the 20th and 21st centuries like H.P. Lovecraft, Steven King, Neil Gaiman, and Ray Bradbury; as well as on other modern mediums including podcasts, short film, and television. Our driving questions will seem relatively simple: What is the Gothic? What are short stories? Why do the two go so well together? And what makes the Gothic short story so scary and enticing? As we read, however, we will discover that these questions evade simple answers. Each week, exploring a different theme and discussing how these stories create their atmospheres of dread, we will analyze how the use of short story to depict our deepest fears has changed over time in both European and American settings. More importantly, we will dissect each thematic fear to discover common undercurrents which often intersect with or replicate some of humanity’s oldest prejudices.”
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