In so doing, they propounded new conceptions of aesthetic accomplishment that were later codified as 'modernism'. However, after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment repurposed ...

Nathan Gorelick traces literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Much f the influential literature produced during the modernist period, roughly 1900-1950, was considered radical in its time. This course will focus on the experimental, avant-garde impulse that ...

‘The tension between collective creativity and individual genius is again under inspection, this time by Russell McDonald in Modernist Literary Collaborations Between Men and Women … Conflict ...

This hexagonal home, hidden on an Oahu mountaintop, is the best example of Vladimir Ossipoff’s blend of Japanese and American midcentury design.

A “gloriously erudite” critic, he denounced the embrace of blandly functional architecture in efforts to rebuild after World ...

Study post-1900 literature in all its geographical, formal and thematic complexity and diversity. Explore a variety of critical and theoretical approaches to modern and contemporary writing. Study at ...

British and American modernist literature, composition and rhetoric, and gender studies. Domestic space in modernist literature; Gender and narrative in modernist literature; The literature of dissent ...

This unit will explore the relationship between modernist literature and cinema from a variety of angles. It will consider: involvement (the ways in which modern writers partook in the business and ...