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In the early 1800s popular writers began to compress novel-like narrations into much shorter forms. By the 1880s what we recognize today as the short story had emerged. In this course we will trace the development of the form from its earliest stirrings in the tales of ETA Hoffmann through the Russians Pushkin, Gogol, and Turgenev, to its apotheosis in the stories of Chekhov and Wharton. Critical responses will be creative, using short sketches to experiment with the techniques, some adopted others rejected, and constraints experienced by writers along the way.