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In this cohesive block-seminar we will work through the various steps necessary in preparing a B.A. Thesis—including the selection and definition of a suitable topic, the research and evaluation of appropriate secondary sources, the process of writing and editing from a singular paragraph to an entire chapter, and lastly also the argumentative structure of the first longer critical work that most students write. All this will be done in the context of well-known and not so well-known American short stories, all of which share a dense language, allusive narratives, and ambiguous motifs, thus compensating for their brief length. Among others we will read and analyze the works of Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, and Ursula K. Le Guin. |
