Comparative Modernisms

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Comparative Modernisms introduces students to an important literary period. Spanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the modernist period saw significant innovation and experimentation in literature and in the arts. While some periods are regionally or culturally specific, modernism is remarkable for its global reach. Writers in the Caribbean, Latin America, South Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America were engaged in a simultaneous project of aesthetic, political, and psychological exploration. This course will introduce students to major texts from multiple regions of the world and will prepare them for upper level classes that focus on a particular aspect of modernism such as Latin American modernism, British modernism, the avant-garde, surrealism, psychoanalysis, etc.