Modernist Literature and Culture

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Students will engage in an intensive study of modernist literary texts (fiction, poetry, non-fiction prose), produced from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries by concentrating on a particular network of authors, such as the writers of the Harlem Renaissance or the Bloomsbury Group, and learn to deeply situate the works produced by these authors within their historical and cultural contexts. Authors studied will be drawn from different national and transnational contexts and may include Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, William Faulkner, John Dos Passos, Nella Larsen, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen as well as Franz Kafka. May be repeated up to six hours if topics differ. Prerequisite(s): One of the survey classes in the English Studies in Historical Context: ENG 2610 , ENG 2620 , ENG 2640 , ENG 2650 , ENG 2110 , ENG 2120 , ENG 2740 , or ENG 2750 .