A close study of selected works of American modernism published in the first half of the twentieth century, including poetry and fiction. The course covers different varieties of modernism, such as expatriate writing, the Harlem Renaissance, and proletarian literature. Authors discussed may include Cather,  H.D., Eliot, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Frost, Hemingway, Hughes, Hurston, Larsen, Moore, Pound, Rukeyser, Stein, Stevens, Williams, Wright, and others.