This course is a study of Modernism in the great twentieth century works of European, British and American literature. Students focus on the period from World War I to the present, with special attention to the Lost Generation that followed World War I; Surrealism and Dadaism; Existentialism; responses to the Holocaust, the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and the Cold War; the Beat Generation; and the outgrowth of Modernism called Post-Modernism.