Globala modernismer

Kursen ger dig inblick i perioden kring första halvan av 1900-talet med hänsyn både till litterära och andra estetiska yttringar som kännetecknar modernismen med fokus på den geografiska och språkliga variationen. 

The course provides you with an insight into the period around the first half of the 20th century with regard both to literary and other aesthetic manifestations that characterise modernism with a focus on geographic and linguistic variation. During the course you will discuss central debates and questions withing modernism and how these are expressed mainly in fiction, but also in other cultural manifestations. Through its transnational and transcultural perspective, the course offers you possibilities to reflect on how aesthetic ideas are moved as well as how they express themselves through their form.