The course will survey modernism as an international phenomenon from around 1860 to 1930. Special attention will be given to the interplay between literary and theoretical writers, including Baudelaire, Doestoevsky, Rilke, Strindberg, Kafka Joyce, and Woolf in the first group and Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, DuBois, and Adams in the second. We will explore the modernists' preoccupation with mentality, urban life, and sexuality and consider their responses to modernity in its economic, scientific, religious, racial, and military forms. All readings in English. Format: lecture/discussion. Requirements: active participation in class discussions, oral presentations, two medium-length papers. No prerequisites. Enrollment limit: 20 (expected: 20). Preference to current and prospective majors in Comparative Literature and Literary Studies. (Literary Movements)