ENGL H350 American Short Fiction

Provides an in-depth examination of the initiation theme organized to enable the student to recognize, identify, and appreciate the varying styles of major American authors. Pays much attention to irony, paradox, symbol, motif, and foreshadowing in the works of representative authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Stephen Crane, and Edith Wharton, among others.