English 286, Tribble A202, Thurs.
3-5:30 P.M. Dr. Edelson, X5908; edelsojb@wfu.edu;
office hours by appointment
SHORT STORY WORKSHOP
SPRING 2000/READINGS
Week 1 [1/13] - Reliable First-Person
Narration
Enid Du Bois, from Studs
Terkel, ed., Working
Alice Munro, "Boys and Girls"
Leon Rooke, from Shakespeare's Dog
Week 2 [1/20] - Unreliable First
Person
William Faulkner, from The Sound and
the Fury
James Joyce, "Araby"
Week 3 [1/27] - Third Person
Week 4 [2/3] - Gender Switch
Alisdair Gray, "You"
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, from Buffalo
Afternoon
Week 5 [2/10] - Dialog
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from Crime and
Punishment
Grace Paley, "A Conversation with My Father"
Week 6 [2/17] - Group Conversation
Ernest Hemingway, "Light of the World"
Toni Cade Bambara, "My Man Bovanne"
Week 7 [2/24] - Crowd Scene
Flannery O'Connor, "A Late Encounter with
the Enemy"
Don DeLillo, from Mao II
Week 8 [3/2] - Portrait/Still
Life
Charles Dickens, from Great Expectations
Stanley Elkin, "A Poetics for Bullies"
Donald Barthelme, "The Balloon"
*Spring Break*
Week 9 [3/16] - Indoor description/Movement
in Confined Space
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow
Wallpaper"
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel"
Italo Calvino, "All at One Point"
John Sayles, "Hoop"
Week 10 [3/23] - Outdoor Description/Unconfined
Movement
Richard Wright, "Big Boy Leaves Home"
Alain Robbe-Grillet, from The Voyeur
Week 11 [3/30] - Present tense
Anton Chekhov, from "Ward Six"
Raymond Carver, "The Bridle"
Eri Makino, "Sproing!"
Week 12 [4/6] - Condensing the
Past: Baggage Handling
Isak Dinesen, "The Immortal Story"
Isidoro Blaisten, "Uncle Facundo"
Week 13 [4/13] - Flashback/Forward
Vladimir Nabokov, "Spring in Fialta"
Rick De Marinis, "Your Burden is Lifted,
Love Returns"
Week 14 [4/20] - Why is a short
story short? Planning the Final Story
Week 15 [4/27] - Practical
Matters/Going Public