Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(63ΛΕ120) -  Αγγελική Τσέτη

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

This course will aim to examine various forms of American modernism that developed in the early years of the twentieth century and sought to perform a radical break from earlier conventions so as to reflect the socio-cultural, economic and financial turbulence of the interwar times. Modernism saw an explosion of literary innovation and unfolded in conversation with several phenomena of modernity: new forms of social and economic integration, but also expatriate life and displacement; new modes of perspective and experience emerging from psychology, philosophy, and the visual arts; changes in urban structures; an ambivalence towards a technologically innovative mass culture; and new political discourses that altered understandings of race and gender. In view of all this, the course will pursue an interdisciplinary study of this moment by looking at painting, photography, literary and critical texts; it will explore aesthetic experimentation, but also alternative visions of modernism that engage ideas of progress, race and the advent of technology. Lectures will underscore the dynamic relationship between literature and history—including the history of visual arts, politics and ideas; they will consider questions of genre, and will consider a variety of topics, including the middlebrow and “high art” modernism, transnational mobility, and the shifting pressures of gender, race, ethnicity, and class during the modern era.

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Σάββατο 23 Φεβρουαρίου 2019