This module studies poetry and fiction from 1890-1945. It explores the concept of Modernism, as a series of experimental styles, in relation to modernity, the social and political contexts Modernism responded to (such as technological change, urbanism, psychology, feminism, World War I).
Topics include:
One-hour weekly lectures and seminars. Seminars may include presentations, student-led discussion and/or class exercises.
T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Poets of the Great War, H.G. Wells, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf; W.B. Yeats.
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