LIT302

Categories: Part 3, University Courses

About Course

LIT 302 explores the Modern Era as a period of radical transformation in literature, shaped by war, industrialization, and shifting human consciousness. Moving away from the order and stability of earlier periods, modernist writers embraced fragmentation, ambiguity, and experimental forms to reflect the complexities of modern life.

What Will You Learn?

  • Understand the historical context of the Modern Era (war, industrialization, fragmentation)
  • Identify key features of modernist literature such as stream of consciousness and disillusionment
  • Analyze complex literary texts using stylistic and critical approaches
  • Examine themes like alienation, identity, and existential crisis

Course Content

Introduction

  • Historical Background
    15:11
  • Basic Literary Tenets of the Era
    13:48

The Second Coming by W.B Yeats

Lord of the Flies

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The Waste Land

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