5. Modernism in Fiction and Poetry

Instructions: 

Listen to the lecture, read the theory and the texts to be ready to answer the questions in the class.

Points to remember:

Main features of modernity (the era): Urbanization, industrialization, feminism, world wars, immigration, and mass culture. 

Main features of modernism: New poetics, experiments with form, unrhymed poetry, and allusions to European culture (Pound and Eliot).