We will compare the development of these ideas in Western Europe to their analogues in Poland, which had a very different political stake in questions of the primitive. We will consider works by Breton, Eliot, Gombrowicz, J.-K. Huysmans, Wyndham Lewis, Pound, Bruno Schulz, S. I. Witkiewicz, and others.
All assignments are optional for auditors.
If you choose to write a longer paper, you must submit a 1-2 page proposal containing your prospective thesis and a sketch of your argument. You must cover at least four of the writers or artists whose work has been assigned for this course. If you are registered for Polish Modernism, two of them must be Polish. All papers must be written in English, typed and double spaced. You will be evaluated on the logic and clarity of your argument and the solidity of your evidence for that argument.