An exploration of the literature of the 20th Century, this course explores the innovative styles and changing narrative structures that characterized the rapidly changing world of the early modern period. The course beings with James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," exemplifying modernist exploration of consciousness and artistic identity. Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse" further highlight the period's focus on internal experiences, weaving themes of time, memory, and the subjective nature of reality. T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" exposes post-war disillusionment and the fragmented nature of a modern society still shaped by its mythic past but incapable of finding inspiration from those myths. Other poets such as W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams provide insights into the continuing struggle to find meaning in the world, whether epic or mundane. The course concludes with the work of William Faulkner and the interplay between innovative narrative structure and the modernist preoccupation with subjective experience.