American Modernism.

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This course surveys American modernist texts, exploring how literary artists in a newly connected and vastly transformed 20th-century world sought to “make it new”—to renew language’s ability to make meaning--and to find “what will suffice.” American avant gardes and their fragmentary difficulties, the Harlem Renaissance/Chicago Renaissance, imagism, high modernisms, little magazines and manifestos, and other manifestations will be explored in conversation with multi-media and multi-genre-modernist impulses which shaped them and were/are shaped by them in cosmopolitan networks of exchange seeking the renewal of literature.