HMS-301A Modernist Literature

3 Credits

This course will serve as a general introduction to the various literatures and literary cultures which came about due to the massive cultural dislocations of the early twentieth century. Topics may include: theories of modernism and modernity, stream of consciousness, literary montage, fragmentation, alienation, literary expressionism, Harlem Renaissance, queer modernisms, etc. Authors may include: Oscar Wilde, Henry James, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Robert Musil, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka, Wyndham Lewis, Samuel Beckett, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, etc.