Sep 01, 2025

2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

EN 363 Modernism and Postmodernism

(3 Credits)
This is a critical reading of selected texts, both artistic and rhetorical, to explore the differences between modern and postmodern styles, methods, and attitudes in the 20th century. It includes such modernist works as Joyce’s Ulysses (selections), Eliot’s The Wasteland, poems by Yeats and Stevens, and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, as well as essays by Wimsatt and Jung; postmodern works by such poets as W. C. Williams, R. Lowell, Plath, Levertov, and Rich; film directors Fellini, Resnais, W. Allen and essays by Altieri, Fish, and Barthes.

Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.