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Présentation
The short story is a particular form with its specific rules and traditions which has developped in the last 150 years to cover practically every genre and subgenre of fiction.
The British short story in particular has thrived in popular fiction, the so-called minor genres, and enjoyed a great success with the reading public.
In the course we shall be looking at a century and a half of crime, fantasy and horror and charting what has changed and what remained the same in this specific form of deceptively light entertainment.
Set stories :
1) Wilkie Collins, “A Terribly Strange Bed”, 1852.
2) George MacDonald, “The Golden Key”, 1867.
3) Oscar Wilde, “The Canterville Ghost”, 1887.
4) Arthur Conan Doyle, “Silver Blaze”, 1892.
5) G.K. Chesterton, “The Blue Cross”, 1911.
6) Virginia Woolf, “A Haunted House”, 1921.
7) Agatha Christie, “The Witness for the Prosecution”, 1924.
8) M.R. James, “Lost Hearts”, 1931.
9) Charles Williams, “Et in Sempiterum Pereant”, 1935.
10) Dorothy L. Sayers, “Striding Folly”, 1939.
11) C.S. Lewis, “Forms of Things Unknown” (FP : 1966, written around 1958)
12) Joan Aiken, “The Serial Garden”
13) J.R.R Tolkien, “Leaf by Niggle”, 1945.
14) J.K. Rowling, “The Tale of the Three Brothers”, 2008.
Modalités
Cours magistraux : 18 heures
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