ENGL 20209 - Coteries and Manifestos:Literary Modernism

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University of Chicago

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The course investigates twin aims-the desire for radical new forms of writing and the desire for radical new forms of community-in a series of literary movements between the two world wars. We consider how writers of this period viewed community as a literary problem, and vice versa-how they created communities to serve as readers for their work. We read their essays, poems, and novels as arguments for new values-political as well as artistic-and as examples of those values in practice. Accordingly, we pay special attention to the manifestos they produc(in various forms), and to their other coterie productions-their little magazines, collaborative poems, and internecine controversies. Our main aim is to develop a critical understanding of the most influential texts from this period of war and revolution, as well as a clear view of the period itself. J. Kotin. Winter.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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