Abbreviated Wisdom: the Short Story, Tiny but Huge

Angela Moger, a Professor of Literature
at Sarah Lawrence College, will discuss the short story.  Claiming it has an intensity that the novel
cannot achieve, John Cheever defined the short story as “the appeasement of
pain...at the very point of death, one tells oneself a short story"
 While this is surely true, it gives an insufficient accounting of the
disparate roles played by the elliptic, perverse, ambitious genre known as the
Short Story.  Stories to be discussed:
"Snow" by Ann Beattie, and "Hills like White Elephants" by
Ernest Hemingway.  Copies of the stories
may be picked up ahead of time at the JCC. 
Professor Moger is a recipient of
Yale's Mary Cady Tew Prize and the Dwight and Noyes Clark fellowship.
 Scholarly publications include essays in Yale French Studies, PMLA, and
Romanic Review, and the books: Maupassant Conteur et Romancier",
"Hurdles", and "Moving Forward, Holding Fast: The Dynamics of
Movement in Nineteenth-Century French Culture.”  The Renard Active Retirement Lecture
Series welcomes the entire community. 
The fee is $5 per person.  For more
information, please call Linda 914.366.7898.