CLS2530

Modernism in European literature

(ART)

Millicent Vladiv-Glover

6 points + 2.5 hours per week + Second semester + Clayton + Prohibitions: SLA2530, SLA3530

Synopsis: A study of the modernist movement as a supra-national European cultural paradigm. The texts will cover the literatures of both Eastern and Western Europe, and will be studied in English translation, though they may be read in their original languages. The poetics of the various modernist 'schools,' such as symbolism, futurism, expressionism and surrealism, will be studied in the context of the theory of the avant-garde and with reference to the major twentieth-century cultural paradigm shift from modernism to postmodernism.

Assessment: Essay (3000 words): 45% + Class paper (1500 words): 25% + Test (1 hour): 30%