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Catch-22
This video discusses the major ideas of the satirical American war novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. The horror of war meets…absurdity and humor? Is the novel completely cynical in its take on war?
Modernism Videos 2 videos
There's More Than One Way to Crack a Modernist Egg
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The Modernists thought the world had a lot of problems, and they were intent on fixing them—or at least talking about fixing them. Unfortunately,...
Crisis
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Modernism was meant to solve the world's problems, but some authors—Virginia Woolf and Ezra Pound, for example—had a few crises of their own.