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The Modern and Post Modern
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60hrs4creditsMarks-80The Modern and Post modern (England, America and France) After being introduced to literary texts and contexts of the reformation, restoration and the renaissance, students are in this part of the course introduced to writings (Britain, America and France) and the history of these writings. Beginning with the Enlightenment, discussing the idea through Emmanuel Kant’s “What is Enlightenment?” the course will focus on the ideological moorings of “modern”, “modernism” and “modernity” in Literature, Art and Cinema through essays of  Karl Marx, Raymond Williams and Habermas. Module –I                                                                                12 hoursOrder-ChaosFrom Enlightenment to RevolutionKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (excerpts)Modern & ModernismWhen was modernism-Raymond Williams (excerpts)ModernityThe Philosophical discourse of Modernity (excerpts) –HabermasModule 11                                                                                12 hoursWritings and Art traditionsHowl-Allen GinsbergUn Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) 1929 silent surrealist short film by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí.Maya Deren (Meshes of the Afternoon)Edward Munch-ScreamJohn Cage-4’33Visual poetry-Square poemTo the light house- Virginia WoolfMurder in the Cathedral- T.S ElliotJames Joyce- ArabyReferencesImmanuel Kant: What is Enlightenment? 1784 Was ist Äufklarung?Horkheimer and Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, Chapter 1 From Stanford University Press: