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A study of the short story as written by American authors using both traditional and innovative narrative techniques. Readings will drive discussion of various methods for construting authorial point of view, modes of narrative compression, the relationship of story structure to reader response and the range of styles in which authors practice the short story, from realism to postmodernism.