CLL 199 - (LT) Contemporary European LiteratureSemester Hours: 3 or 4
Periodically
This course covers the ideas and techniques that went into innovative works of literature in the 20th and early 21st centuries. It is about the stresses and strains felt within these years by: the destruction of two world wars; the loss of belief in religion; the rise of our dependence on science and technology; the rise and fall of fascism, the commodification of art and extreme materialism brought about by late capitalism; the decay of humanism; the crisis of gender and ethnic identities; the growth of mass, and mass media, culture. All of these developments had significant effects on European literature in this period. The course examines general European literary movements such as modernism, surrealism, existentialism, post-modernism, and magical realism, with occasional emphasis on movements more characteristic of specific national literary traditions as appropriate.
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