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In this course, we will explore the remarkable literary innovations that developed during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. We will focus in particular on modernism, postmodernism, and the contemporary, with close attention to the work of major writers, including T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, Samuel Beckett and Toni Morrison.