ROMST206

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Modern European Short Fiction

Romance Studies Dept. A&S - Arts and Sciences

Subject

ROMST

Catalog Number

206

Title

Modern European Short Fiction

Course Description

Comprehensive examination of several important works of modern European short fiction by authors such as Kafka, Woolf, Svevo, Sartre, Joyce, Proust, Mann, Schnitzler, Gogol, and Calvino. While stories will be contextualized historically, culturally, and geographically, course is organized into thematic units, including animals, home, punishment, and love, to facilitate comparative analysis. Students engage critically with concepts such as identity, trauma, genre, and narrative form.

Grading Basis

Graded

Consent (Permission Number)

No Special Consent Required

Min Units

1

Max Units

1

Lecture

Crosslisted Courses

General Education Curriculum Codes

CCI - (CCI) Cross Cultural Inquiry, EI - (EI) Ethical Inquiry, HI - (HI) Humanistic Inquiry: A&S Curriculum, ALP - (ALP) Arts, Literature & Performance, CZ - (CZ) Civilizations