E 351 - British Modernism:Its Origin and Its Ends

Institution:

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

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Description:

3 credits This course will explore the primary characteristics of British Modernism by studying authors writing before, during and after the high point of the movement in the early twentieth century. By studying Victorian, Modern and Postmodern British writers, the course will consider the creation of modernism and its aesthetic aftermath and simultaneously question the legitimacy of modernism as a distinct aesthetic category. Special attention will be given to aesthetic, theological and philosophical questions and how these are reflected or addressed in literary works. Authors studied might include Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Jean Rhys and Peter Carey.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.smumn.edu

Phone Number:

(507) 457-1600

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Trimester

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