Western University Academic Calendar. - 2018ARCHIVE
English 3370F/G
MODERNISM AND THE BIRTH OF THE AVANT-GARDE
Fascinated by innovation and revolution, modernism is obsessed with the new, celebrating the speed, alienation, and fragmentation of modernity. Yet it is also steeped in nostalgia, in a world dashed by modernity itself. This course offers a range of texts that explore modernist reimaginings of art, politics, psychology and identity.