SF-H189 Honors American Gothic
This literature seminar will study and compare the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery OConnor, and Annie Proulx. Beginning with Poe as the father of the short story genre in America and exploring his critical theory of the grotesque and arabesque, the class will examine the emergence of the gothic literary idiom as a classic American genre. Critical essays on the gothic aesthetic will be analyzed and film adaptations and documentaries will be viewed.
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