ENG 322 Studies in Modernism

'On or about December 1910, human nature changed,' Virginia Woolf declared, and this course will explore the nature of that change as expressed in the modernist writing of the first half of the twentieth century. The focus of the course may be on the prose writers who revolutionized fiction, such as Stein, Hemingway, Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner, Toomer and others; or on poets such as Yeats, Eliot, Frost, H.D., Stein, Stevens, Hughes, Williams, Moore, and Pound, whose goal was to '[m]ake it new.' Exploration of relevant historical and critical materials will contextualize reading. This course may be taken more than once, provided it addresses a different topic when taken again. Fulfills writing-intensive requirement. Prerequisites: ENG 112 or 114 and two literature courses at the 200-level.