Global Modernisms: Inter/National Responses to Modernity

This course focuses on the relationship between modernity and modernism: the social and cultural phenomena that constitute twentieth-century life across a range of global contexts, and the aesthetic response to these unevenly distributed phenomena. Students will consider the ways that writers engage with, and react against, the status quo, in terms of both literary tradition and the social and political upheavals that manifested themselves in the early part of the century through processes such as industrialisation, migration and urbanisation. This course is jointly taught with undergraduate students. Credit Level: 11 Year taken: Postgraduate

Not running in 2025/26