Explore how Arabic literature and thought changed over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through extended studies of poetry and prose written in Arabic. Examine the relationship of modernity to modernist literature in order to define what modernism means in an Arab/ic context. Only one of the following may be counted: Asian Studies 390E, Comparative Literature 386 (Topic: Middle Eastern Modernities), Middle Eastern Studies 386 (Topic: Middle Eastern Modernities), 386 (Topic 21). Three lecture hours a week for one semester.