Anoka Ramsey Community College -- Coon Rapids Campus

English 2204: Short Stories

Course Handouts

If you miss a class, please read this:

"Did I Miss Anything?"

General Course Information / Links:

Short Fiction -- for History, Elements, Lengths, etc.

Novels -- for the James novella

General Information Pages about Literature -- for Periods, Genres, Conflicts, Themes, Myths, Archetypes, etc.

Writing About Literature -- for Technical Information, Writing Tips, Literary Criticism, etc.

Writing about Literature -- Papers

Writing about Literature -- Exams

Romanticism -- Information / Links:

Notes on Literary Romanticism

Horror and/or Gothic Fiction

"Romances" vs. "Novels"

Notes on Writers for American Romanticism -- e.g., Hawthorne and Poe

Realism / Naturalism / Local Color / Regionalism -- Information / Links:

Romanticism vs. Realism

Regionalism vs. Local Color

Notes on Literary Regionalism

Notes on Literary Local Color

Notes from The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Realism, Naturalism, Regionalism

Notes on Literary Realism

Notes on Literary Naturalism

More Notes on Literary Naturalism

Notes on Writers for American Realism, Naturalism, Regionalism, and Local Color -- e.g., Freeman and Chopin

Modernism -- Information / Links:

Some Attributes of Modernist Literature (from Lye)

Literary Modernism -- from Scott's American Literature Since 1865 course

Literary Modernism -- notes specifically for this course

Notes on Writers for American Modernism -- e.g., Cather and Hemingway

Post-Modernism -- Information / Links:

Qualities of Modern and Post-Modern Literature (from Wrobel)

Postmodernism (from Klages)

Notes on Writers for American Post-Modernism

Digital Storytelling

Hypertext Literature

Copyright © 2012 Scott R. Stankey / All Rights Reserved
Last revised on 29 June 2012 by SRS
Please address comments to scott.stankey@anokaramsey.edu