The students will read closely ( one text per week) a chosen passage from the list below. They will be paying attention to style, theme and form.

The aim is to deepen their the linguistic, stylistic and literature knowledge, allowing them also to orient themselves in literary analysis.

Reading list:

Raymond Carver, short stories: http://www.openculture.com/2013/03/three_raymond_carver_stories.html
John Updike, extract from "Rabbit, Run"
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
Saul Bellow, Herzog (extract)
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
Joseph Mitchell, "Mazie"
Mavis Gallant, short stories
Willa Cather, My Ántonia
Flannery O’Connor, "Everything That Rises Must Converge"
Story from New Yorker magazine (online)