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ENGL-619-01 Modernism and Its Discontents
Fall only
What does it mean for a literary text to be modernist? What is the significance of modernism as a descriptive category for the dominant literary movement in early twentieth century Europe? Does modernism have a project, and if so, why does it assume the form and force that it does? What are its features and what are its limitations as a particular practice? How do theories of modernism address these limits?
Through our readings of texts by Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Jean Rhys, and Samuel Beckett among others, this course examines various attempts to define modernism as a trope for generating alternative narratives. Analyzing the cultural pressures informing the modernist shift away from earlier literary forms, we shall examine both how and why modernist texts enact this rupture, and what this historically specific disjuncture entails for understanding alternative modernities. Critical readings in Arjun Appadurai, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Andreas Huyssen, Fredric Jameson, Georg Lukács, Edward Said.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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