Modernist Literature and Culture
English · 3 hrs Lecture
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Description
This course focuses on some of the literary and cultural texts of modernism, understood as a series of contemporaneous transnational artistic and cultural movements between approximately 1910 and 1945. Sections of the course may focus on a specific form, genre, movement, place, or politics. Sample topics include: Modernist Poetry, Noir in Fiction and Film, the Harlem Renaissance, Gender and Modernism, and Reading the 1930s. This course may be repeated once when the topic varies.
Requisite courses
6 credit hours of First-year English, including ENGL-1001(6) or ENGL-1000(3) [prerequisite(s)]; and 12 credit hours of English at the 2000-level or above (must be taken previously or at the same time as this course).
Restrictions
Honours Form Required.
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