This course examines the social, historical, and cultural forces that yielded different versions of modernisms, broadly defined as different clusters of artistic and literary expression of various kinds, architecture, and film composed and created during the first 40 years of the 20th century. It examines the high modernism of Eliot, Pound, and Joyce ,but as only one privileged response of several to a world increasingly defined by speed, new technologies, global expansion, and a new kind of skyscraper urbanism that developed in cities such as New York.
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