ENGL 353 - International Modernism

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Comparative study of modernism as a set of cosmopolitan ideas and practices across transforming cities, nations, and social formations, infused by the internationalism of momentous events such as the Russian Revolution and the two world wars. Attention to modernism’s complex relations with emerging forms of popular and mass culture, and its dispersal across a variety of discourses and aesthetic media. Emphasis on the making of inventive historical connections in a still-contested field.