Modernism | Essays and Criticism

  • Process Leading to Modernism

    Barnhisel directs the Writing Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. In this essay, Barnhisel describes the process by which Modernism became the dominant literary movement of the twentieth century.

  • The Problematics of European Modernism

    In the following essay excerpt, Sheppard explores the problems inherent in fully defining of European Modernism and its impetus.