• How did the Classical Modernism of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and James Joyce differ from the "Neomodernism" of Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams?
• What made them believe as they did? How did their political extremism and the self-destructive choices so many of them made during the war years relate to their writing and the personal demons that haunted them?
• Most important, what did they have to say to us, both then and now?

This course examines Literary Modernism as a movement that can only be appreciated within the wide-ranging context of the philosophy, literature, politics, and morality of the first half of the 20th century.