Literary Modernities in Europe and America: Text and Traditions

Baudelaire described modernity as opposing the local, transient, and fragmentary to the universal, eternal, and ideal. It also instills a tension between continuity and rupture with the past. This is true in terms of both social institutions and literary form. We will read texts in which characters' hopes are, on occasion, dashed, their aspirations thwarted, in their struggle to reconcile expectations with experience, or representation with reality. Out of such conflict, new modes of expression and creation emerge. Authors include Cervantes, La Fayette, Diderot, Goethe, Shelley, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Woolf, Brecht and Beckett.
Course Attributes: EN H; BU Hum; AS HUM; AS LCD; FA HUM; AR HUM; AMP

Literary Modernities in Europe and America: Text and Traditions

ENGLISH LITERATURE 3050

Section 01