READING WORKSHOP PROGRAMME 2022-2023
Mainly Short Stories
“‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, ‘it means just what
I choose it to mean—neither more nor less’ ”
(Source: “Poststructuralism. A very Short Introduction” by Catherine Belsey)
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
The focus of the programme for the academic course 2022-2023 will mainly embrace short fiction with a couple of exceptions that have sprung from former interests of attending members such as Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, among others. Some of the short stories are part of the tapestry of a novel such as Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses, or Alice Munroe’s Too Much Happiness, so, in these cases, rather than unstrung pieces, the short stories constitute the tiles that will conform the whole mosaic of the narrative. The programme divides in three different sections that encompass writers from different geographical locations: American, Irish, British and Canadian.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Philip K. Dick, Mary Robinette Kowal, Maggie O’Farrell and Alice Munroe conform the constellation of authors which will be part of the 2022-23 programme.
