ENGL 441

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Innovation and Conflict in British and Irish Modernism

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

This course will examine British and Irish modernism, one of the most dynamic, provocative, and experimental periods in literary history. The early decades of the twentieth century witnessed the rapid introduction of new technologies, the upheaval of global politics, the radical transformation of gender roles, and the traumatic fallout from two world wars. The period's literature and art processed these turbulent cultural experiences through extreme formal experimentation, and this course will consider many of the key works emerging from the modernist and avant-garde movements. Among the authors we'll study are Joseph Conrad, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Charlie Chaplin, and Samuel Beckett.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 441 class schedule data for spring 2026
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39271	Lecture-Discussion	1G	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	215 Davenport Hall	McLeer, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: SP26 ENGL 441 - British and Irish Modernism - Heather McLeer - This course will examine British and Irish modernism, one of the most dynamic, provocative, and experimental periods in literary history. The early decades of the twentieth century witnessed the rapid introduction of new technologies, the upheaval of global politics, the radical transformation of gender roles, and the traumatic fallout from two world wars. In this section of ENGL 441, we’ll explore how modernist authors in Britain and Ireland radically experimented with literary form and narrative to respond to the turbulent events of the first half of the 20th century, with a focus on how they explored rapidly changing notions of selfhood and national identity. Authors we’ll explore include but are not limited to W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	39270	Lecture-Discussion	1U	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	215 Davenport Hall	McLeer, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: SP26 ENGL 441 - British and Irish Modernism - Heather McLeer - This course will examine British and Irish modernism, one of the most dynamic, provocative, and experimental periods in literary history. The early decades of the twentieth century witnessed the rapid introduction of new technologies, the upheaval of global politics, the radical transformation of gender roles, and the traumatic fallout from two world wars. In this section of ENGL 441, we’ll explore how modernist authors in Britain and Ireland radically experimented with literary form and narrative to respond to the turbulent events of the first half of the 20th century, with a focus on how they explored rapidly changing notions of selfhood and national identity. Authors we’ll explore include but are not limited to W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.