ENGL 243 Novellas and Short Novels
An introductory course focusing on novellas and short novels as forms of fiction that may be distinguished from their cousins, the novel and short story, by subject matter, style, and length. The course may include such authors as Leo Tolstoy, Italo Calvino, Katherine Anne Porter, William Maxwell, Stanley Elkin, George Saunders, Jane Smiley, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Andrea Barrett, and Laurie Colwin, among others. Students will engage in a series of close readings of the texts and will conclude the course with a larger research project.