ENGL 346 Modernism

This course examines selected poetry and prose in Europe and America during the first half of the twentieth century in the context of enormous upheavals in worldviews generated by thinkers like Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche, as well as the devastating effect of two world wars. It considers how literature both mirrors and informs significant historical changes in human understandings of self and society – and especially the purpose of literary art. The course may include authors such as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens. This course falls in the Questions of Literature in History category.