College Bulletin 2024-2025 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
College Bulletin 2024-2025

ENGL 121. Modernism and Forgetting


This course is an advanced research seminar on the literatures, cultures, and theories of modernism. Central questions include: How do aspects of psychic life, such as mourning and trauma, exert pressure on literary form? Why do memory’s material traces (the archive, the photograph) enthrall the modernist imagination? What ethical or political values attend literary projects of remembering? Of forgetting? We will situate modernist literary practice alongside psychoanalytic, postcolonial, queer, and feminist critique.
20th/21st c.
Humanities.
2 credits.
Eligible for INTP, GLBL-Core
Spring 2025. Patnaik.
Catalog chapter: English Literature  
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature


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