FYSP 081 - Modernism as Media

Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 Credits
Attribute: 4 HU, WINT

We will examine the ways in which many modernist texts engage with modern media forms: telegrams, phonographs, photographs, and advertisements. Modernist authors saw their texts as competing with these other expressive media. How is a poem like or not like a photograph? What traits does a novel share with a telegram? How do our reading and writing strategies change when we think about modernist literature as media?
Enrollment Limit: 14
Instructor: J. Emery-Peck
Consent of the Instructor Required: Yes