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This course explores the transatlantic evolution of literary modernism in Britain, Ireland and the United States, exploring questions of transatlanticism, war, and poetics. The course engages the idea of "national literature" and literary influences against the notion of "international modernism." It begins with fin-de-siècle writing by JorisKarl Huysmans, W. B. Yeats and Oscar Wilde, and then moves to consider some of the canonical figures associated with modern poetry and fiction. Authors to be studied represent different cultures and may include Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, H.D., T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, Rebecca West, the Great War poets, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Samuel Beckett. Reading novels, poetry, essays/nonfiction prose and the visual arts in a transatlantic frame, the course explores how modernist, avant garde and realist aesthetics mutated and migrated in the face of imperialism, war culture, film, and mass media. |