American Modernism

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A critical study of the literature written in the United States during the first half of the 20th century, including the work of T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and others. Explores the development of the Modernist aesthetic and examines the interplay between literature and psychoanalysis, Fascism, and other twentieth-century cultural and political developments.