Global Modernism and Crisis

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The early twentieth century was marked by a proliferation of crises in politics, the economy, language, indeed in the very fabric of society. This interdisciplinary course will insist on the global dimension of crisis, analyzing how modernist artists in the metropolis and the periphery represented this situation in different, yet overlapping ways. We will also examine how modernist works provide unique ways of thinking about what is lost in a moment of crisis and what potential may arise out of it. Authors will include: Eliot, Huidobro, Dos Passos, Woolf, Galvão, Arlt and Faulkner.