Copies of the class syllabus, course handouts and several short readings will be available to download on Studium. The anthology we will be using, The Short Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction, 8th edition, 2011 (ISBN 978-0-312-59623-1) is edited by Ann Charters.
Recommended texts
March-Russell, Paul. The Short Story. An Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
May, Charles. “I am Your Brother”. Short Story Studies. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.
Cox, Ailsa. Writing Short Stories. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Indicative Secondary Reading
Bendixen, Alfred, and Nagel, James (Eds.). A Companion to the American Short Story. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Boddy, Kasia. The American Short Story since 1950. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
Gerlarch, John. Toward the End. Closure and Structure in the American Short Story. Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1985.
Hanson, Clare. Short Stories and Short Fictions, 1880-1890. London: Macmillan, 1985.
_____ . Re-reading the Short Story. London: Macmillan, 1989.
Hunter, Adrian. The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Iftekharrudin, Farhat. The Postmodern Short Story: Forms and Issues. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003.
Iftekharrudin, Farhat et al. (Eds.). Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003.
Lohafer, Susan. Coming to Terms with the Short Story. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana University Press, 1983.
_____ . Reading for Storyness. Preclosure Theory, Empirical Poetics, and Culture in the Short Story. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University, 2003.
Lohafer, Susan, and Clarey, Jo Ellyn (Eds.). Short Story at a Crossroads. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Lounsberry, Barbara, et al. (Eds.). The Tales We Tell: Perspectives on the Short Story. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood P, 1998.
Malcolm, Cheryl Alexander, and Malcolm, David (Eds.). A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
May, Charles. The Short Story. The reality of Artifice. New York and London: Routledge, 2002 [1995].
May, Charles (Ed.). The New Short Story Theories. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1994. Scofield, Martin. The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Winther, Per, et al. (Eds.). The Art of Brevity. Excursions in Short Fiction Theory and Analysis. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004.
Electronic Resources
The Short Story Library – American Literature
http://www.americanliterature.com/sstitleindex.html
Bibliomania: Short Stories
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/5/frameset.html
The Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Perspectives in American Literature
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html
The Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Annotated Author Links
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/Pages/Main.aspx