Literature 3352 - Poetics of Modernity:Art and Politics

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Bard College

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It could be argued that World War II set in play the demise of certain aspects of modernism, while simultaneously preparing the ground for postmodernity, and that the social and political upheavals of the late 1960s instantiated this historical motion. This course explores the ways in which a utopian desire to accommodate the present and invent the future, by finding new aesthetic forms, began to fray, as writers and artists responded to challenges brought on by postwar politics and the new media age. Readings include poetry and poetics; cultural, literary, and art criticism; and prose fiction and narrative. Authors may include Celan, Jabès, Auden, Oppen, Hughes, Ginsberg, Riding, Rich, Burroughs, Mailer, Baldwin, Beckett, Bowles, Nabokov, Borges, Adorno, Arendt, Debord, Barthes, Deleuze, Trilling, and Sontag.

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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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