ENGL 201

Introduction to Modernist Literature

Units: 1.5, formerly 3, Hours: 3-0

Surveys major works of fiction, poetry and drama from the modernist period (roughly 1900-45), with emphasis on the dynamic relation between revolutions in aesthetic form and social, psychological and intellectual developments that marked the early 20th century. Authors may include Yeats, Conrad, Forster, Joyce, Woolf, Pound, Eliot, Stein, Moore, Stevens, Faulkner and Beckett, as well as some literature in translation.

Undergraduate course in English offered by the Department of English in the Faculty of Humanities.