ENGL-322

Between 1910 and 1950, experimentation (in form and in theme), psychological realism, psychoanalytic awareness, and "Make it new!" were the rallying cries of key literary figures, and the role of literature shifted from confirming social vision to questioning it. American Modernism closely examines the literature of this period, focusing on such poets as T.S. Eliot, H.D., Wallace Stevens, W.C. Williams, and Gertrude Stein, or such fiction writers as William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Willa Cather, and Gertrude Stein. The material is approached by either genre or thematic emphases.