Topic: Modernist Cultures, 1890-1940
| Time | Days | Location | Instructor | GER | Credit | OPUS Class Number | Syllabus (Tentative) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10:00am-11:15am | TuTh | Callaway Center N203 | Sells, Erin. | FWRT. | 4 | 4179 | TBA. |
Content: This is an expository writing course on the topic of modernist cultures. The years 1890-1940 encompass what is commonly known as the Modernist Period. American poet Ezra Pound claimed that the modernist imperative was to "make it new"-and in fields as varied as literature, film, music, art, technology, and science, modernism attempted to do exactly that. We will study examples of all of these aspects of modernist culture as we also examine how these cultural artifacts confront and portray issues like war, race, sex, and class in the rapidly changing world of the early twentieth century.
Texts: For Whom The Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway; Quicksand and Passing, by Nella Larsen; Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf; Native Son, by Richard Wright; poems by W.H. Auden, Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, and W.B. Yeats; short stories by James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield; selections from Modernism: An Anthology of Source Documents, Eds. Kolokotroni, Goldman, Taxidou, and The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century, by Alex Ross.
Particulars: Three, six-page critical analysis papers and one final research paper of twelve pages; an annotated bibliography; weekly contributions to an online reading journal; in-class writing assignments; occasional short reflection papers.
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