The Literary Tradition: Modernism and Beyond

This final course in the literature sequence presents selected works of the twentieth century that help the student understand and thereby effectively confront the errors of Modernism, while discerning the action of divinity even in times “that seem unpropitious.” Representative authors include T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Evelyn Waugh, Samuel Beckett, George Orwell, Flannery O’Connor, Edward Albee, and Walker Percy. Composition is an important course component for assessment of student comprehension and development.