ENGL 44706 - Modern American Literature

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

ENGL 20430 Modern American Literature at UCD; "Make it new" was Ezra Pound's view of the fundamental role of the modernist writer, and William Carlos Williams wrote of the poem as a "machine made of words." In each, there is a sense of optimism that new subject matter, new forms of expression, and new ways of seeing the world were at hand. However, Pound's internationalism and Williams's localism indicate the complexity of American Modernism in that each directs our attention to the "new" in quite different ways.This course will promote concepts of transatlantic modernism, and the examination of race, gender, politics, social activism as ways of emphasising the plurality of American modernism. Included will be manifestos from the Harlem Renaissance, High Modernist aesthetics, Imagism, Southern Renaissance, Proletarian Realism, and Objectivism, as we analyse the relationship between European and American Modernisms.Required Texts:The New Anthology of American Poetry: Modernisms, 1900-1950. Ed. Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, and Thomas Travisano (Rutgers UP, 2005).

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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