Introduction. Answering the question : what is modernism?
Plunging in
Words, words, words : modern, modernism, modernity
Periods, genres, models
International anglophone modernisms
Cultures of modernism
Interpreting and changing. Marx
Darwin
Freud
Nietzsche
Saussure
Einstein
Genres and the arts. Novel
Short story
Poetry
Drama
Art movements
Film
Photography, dance and music
Texts, contexts, intertexts. 'The struggle of becoming' : freedom and gender
'It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream ': epistemology and narration
'These fragments I have shored against my ruins' : identity and war
'Who's passing for who?' : sexual and racial divisions
'History is a nightmare' : symbolism and language.