This course provides the opportunity for advanced study of recent thinking on Modernism, Modernity and Post-Modernity. It aims to investigate the key texts and concepts which shape our understanding of literature and culture across a period of unprecedented change. The course pursues this goal in two ways: through an examination of the aesthetic and cultural assumptions of different ‘modern’ movements; and through an examination of issues in modern writing, particularly those relating to modernity (mass culture, revolution and technology) and post-modernity (space, simulation and paranoia). Throughout, texts studied may be related to developments in other cultural practices, such as film, theatre and the visual arts.