ENG 419 Modernism and Postmodernism (3 credits)

This course defines modernism and postmodernism as the new, distinctive movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, bringing insight into our culture and ourselves. It stresses literature (modernism: Eliot, Woolf, Faulkner, and O'Neill; postmodernism: Fowles, D. Barthelme, J. Barnes, and Calvino), adding lectures in art, architecture, and music. Students will learn how to read and write in new ways.