American Modernism

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Using a thematic approach, this course explores important aspects of literary modernism as it pertains to the American historical, social, technological, intellectual, and political experience between the end of World War I and the 1950s. The course immerses students in modernism via fiction, poetry, and critical essays by major American authors and poets of the period. It also asks students to identify and articulate the relationship between race, gender, regional perspectives, and ethnicity in the context of modernist American literature.