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Comparative Literature and Culture 272F/G Modernism

A study of the literary, artistic, cinematic, and intellectual dimensions of Western modernism, and of their importance as a response to radical changes in human experience occurring between ca.1890 and 1930. The poetry, cinema, prose, and painting of such figures as Pirandello, Joyce, Marinetti, Lang, Kafka, Pessoa, Rilke, Proust, Klee, and Woolf will be studied.

Prerequisite: Comparative Literature and Culture 020 or permission of the Department.
3 lecture hours, half course.


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