Modernism and Everyday Life

We examine modernist literature in the context of contemporary art, psychology, and theories of everyday life to ask how this period understood ordinary objects and events. Could they be the proper subject matter of art? In the right circumstances, might they actually be art? Writers include Woolf, Joyce, Hughes, McKay, Stein, Beckett, Freud, deCerteau. One previous literature class strongly recommended. Not open to first-year students.