Comparative Literature | 20th Century: Tradition & Change
C337 | 1248 | Julien
Satisfies Cultural Studies List B
Guillaume Apollinaire, Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, William
Faulkner, Aimé Césaire, Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Richard Wright,
Samuel Beckett, Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, Jorge Luis Borges,
Gabriel García Márquez, Pablo Neruda, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie,
Assia Djebar. Modernism in its multiple faces, existentialism, the
absurd, postcolonialism, magical realism, postmodernism. We shall
consider some of the major figures and developments in the literature
of the twentieth century, both in and beyond Europe, in their
historical contexts.