OLLI Fall Term 2012
(Tuesdays, 12:45-2:15 p.m.)
AMERICAN SHORT STORIES
textbook: Negri, Paul, ed. Great American Short Stories. Dover Thrift
Editions. Dover Publications, 2002.
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class-meeting outline
week 1:
(Sept. 25)
course introduction
week 2:
(Oct. 2)
the art of terror: Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale
Heart” (p. 13); Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow
Wallpaper” (p. 115); Ernest Hemingway, “The Killers” (p.
240)
week 3:
(Oct. 9)
forest journeys: Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman
Brown” (p. 1) ; Sarah Orne Jewett, “A White Heron”
(p. 84)
week 4:
(Oct 16)
the Old West: Bret Harte, “The Luck of Roaring
Camp”(p. 49); Stephen Crane, “The Bride Comes to
Yellow Sky” (p. 58)
week 5:
(Oct. 23)
marriage: Theodore Dreiser, “The Lost Phoebe”
(p. 179); Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, “A New England
Nun” (p. 104); Kate Chopin, “A Pair of Silk Stockings”
(p. 152)
week 6:
(Oct. 30)
tricksters: Charles Waddell Chesnutt, “The Goophered
Grapevine” (p. 93); F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Bernice Bobs
Her Hair”(p. 209)
week 7:
(Nov. 6)
American Dreams: Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case” (p. 192);
Sherwood Anderson, “The Egg” (p.231)
week 8:
(Nov. 13)
Herman Melville, “Bartleby” (p. 18)
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Margaret Kouidis ([email protected]) (887-9447) & Bert Hitchcock
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