Revolutions of the Word

After the course students are able to:

- Articulate research-informed understandings of assigned literature; 

- Compare and appreciate different textual and disciplinary approaches to literary form;

- Present literary research both in writing and orally;
- Close read texts and their form within their sociohistorical context(s);

- Write with clear and coherent argumentation.

In this course you will explore revolutionary changes and challenges reflected in and enacted by (post-)modernist works of Anglophone literature. Questions raised include: How do socio-political developments play out in twentieth-century literature? What new understandings of experience and existence emerge though modern literary forms? And in what ways do a text’s formal characteristics enhance its transgressiveness?