American Modernities: 1900-1941

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This course studies various aspects of the period in American writing from the turn of the century to the Second World War. Special emphasis will be placed on the multifaceted and experimental nature of American literary modernism and the ways in which it was informed by the various social and art movements during this period. Topics for analysis could include writings of the Lost Generation, the war novel, the influence of the visual arts on written texts, proletarian writing, the growing hybridity of generic form, and literary representations of the Jazz Age as well as the Great Depression.