LIT 384 - Modernist Literature And Culture

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Marylhurst University

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Description:

"Make it new," Ezra Pound wrote. This course explores theModernists' break from the past and their innovations in literary forms. Students read major writers from the period: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jean Toomer, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Zora Neale Hurston, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, and more. Some of the central issues in the Modernist period are discussed: the crisis of meaning brought about by world war, the politics of style, and the dangers and openings residing in the Modernist approach to language. Meets LAC outcomes: AIB4, HCD5. A Period Studies course. This course meets WID (Writing in the Discipline) outcome. 3 crs.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.marylhurst.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 636-8141

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Quarter

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