Modernist Fiction and Theories of Modernism

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Examines a range of modernist fiction--including work by Conrad, Dos Passos, H.D., Joyce, Larsen, Rhys, Toomer, Woolf--alongside selected theories of modernism. Considers approaches ranging from theories of reification and the aesthetic to more recent considerations of modernism's relation to gender, nation, race, empire, and professionalism. Enrollment limited to 15 graduate students.