ENGL 480 - 001

Regular Academic Session

4768

Graduate

3 units

Graded

Topics include modernism, the Symbolist movement, Edwardian Period, and other contextual issues that transcend genre boundaries and address larger concerns of social and intellectual history.

Department Consent Required

Migratory Modernisms This course will offer a view of modernism through the framework of movement and its adjacent, more politically inflected concepts: migration and displacement. As we read a range of authors from Virginia Woolf to Tillie Olsen, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Arun Kolatkar, we will consider ways of reading modernism as committed to dynamism: propulsive form, cultural collisions, and the tremors induced by technology. However, we will also investigate how these and other modernist texts respond to forced displacement such as migrant labor, houselessness, and the creation of refugees through nationalist (and ecological) violence. Sometimes, we will dig deeper to connect observations on movement (such as walking, gymnastics, or flight) to questions of power. Since modernist studies has long opened itself up to texts that are explicitly ideological and concerned with justice, we will keep alive questions of the avant-garde vs ¿realism¿ or ¿naturalism¿ and what is aesthetically ¿essential¿ to modernism, if anything. Finally, through a mix of scholarly conversations in New Modernist Studies and late twentieth-century and contemporary texts (such as Anna Burns¿ Milkman), we will look at ways in which the field of modernist studies itself is driven by a tendency to shift its own boundaries, in an attempt to dismantle the field¿s elitism. In giving ourselves permission to question the fruitfulness of this move, we will circle back to the original tension around movement as an exciting tool of liberation on the one hand, and a painful product of power on the other. This class requires department consent. Please contact Dr. Ian Cornelius at icornelius@luc.edu or (773) 508-2332 for permission.

Anushka Sen

Th 7:00PM - 9:30PM

01/13/2025 - 04/26/2025

In person

Lake Shore Campus

Lake Shore Campus

Open

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