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LITERATURE

LIT-738

Seminar in Twentieth Century Literature (3)

Course Level: Graduate

Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Varies in content to cover English, American, or world literature. Usually offered alternate springs.

LIT-738

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LITERATURE

SPRING 2013

Course Level: Graduate

Seminar in Twentieth Century Literature (3)

Modernism and Painting

This course explores the merits of a painterly analogy as part of a critical approach to the innovations of American literary modernisms. Beginning with Impressionism, the class surveys international modern art movements of the late nineteenth century and twentieth century, including the Post-Impressionism of Cezanne, Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Dada, Precisionism, and Constructivism. While many modernist writers responded to the new kinds of expressive energies and presentational force suggested by non-representational painting, their innovation took highly divergent forms. The poetics of Stein, Pound, H.D., Loy, Stevens, Moore, Williams, and Eliot, as well as the narrative experiments of James, Anderson, Faulkner, and Woolf are examined.