LITR 475 - Modernism

3 Credit(s)

Examines texts produced during the height of modernism (roughly 1910 to 1940) and sees how social, cultural, and economic factors influenced these modernist artists and their art, particularly in terms of what Andreas Huyssen describes the work of modernist art as “autonomous, self-referential, self-conscious, ironic, ambiguous, experimental, rejecting all classical systems of representation, and adversarial toward the bourgeois.”

Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201, and LITR 300.