Literature 3351 - The Poetics of Modernity

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Bard College

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As modernity became conscious of itself, writers and other artists took up the challenge of describing and defending new forms. This course looks at some of the writings that characterized the "new" position of artists, writers, and poetsin relation to the concept of "modern." Authorsinclude Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Kasimir Malevich, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. Students consider how these various figures thought about art forms in relation to events and locale, and how such formal ideas as abstraction, fragmentation, and estrangement contributed to the work of modernism.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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