This course provides an introduction to literary Modernism as an artistic movement that transformed literary production in Europe and the United States from the end of the nineteenth century and across the first half of the twentieth century. In response to the unsettling social, political, and cultural changes brought about by an era of 'modernity', writers sought to create art that would engage with and reflect these changes. Through the study of key Modernist texts (prose, poetry, play), students will learn about the diverse innovations in form, style, and subject matter characteristic of the movement. Authors include, but are not limited to W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, T.S.Eliot, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and Samuel Becket. Students will study how these prominent writers and their work interpret and express the experience of modernity, and the ways in which they reacted to, reflected on, or tried to give shape to the social and political tumult of their times.