Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
• Demonstrate an understanding of the short story’s regional and global development from the mid-twentieth to the twenty-first century;
• analyse a range of short fictions and concepts, and relate their concerns and modes of expression to their cultural, political, social and theoretical contexts;
• demonstrate an advanced ability to perform close-reading of short stories leading to nuanced comparative analyses;
• enter into scholarly conversation with secondary work in the fields of ecofeminism, postcolonial-ecocriticism, and world literary studies;
• develop confidence in primary and secondary research skills – undertaking, applying, and transmitting research.