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Modern writers refers to authors from roughly the late 19th century onward who broke with traditional literary conventions in style, structure, or subject matter.

The term usually points to the modernist movement—Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Faulkner—though it can simply mean contemporary or living writers: The course covers modern writers from Hemingway to Zadie Smith.

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