ENG 445 Modern Short Fiction
Explores the nature of "modernism." By examining selected novellas and short stories by writers such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, James, Kafka, O'Connor, Bellow, Baldwin, Ellison, Gaines, Joyce, Faulkner, and Hemingway, attention is given to both thematic and stylistic features in order to better understand what is "modern" about modern fiction.