This course will explore modern American literature's interest in time. We will identify the narrative methods that modernist texts use to characterize the experience of lived time, or temporality, such as streams of consciousness, non-linear storytelling, and narrative omissions. What challenges do such methods pose to clock time and, more broadly, historical time? Students will learn about key literary movements within American modernism, and they will consider modernist literature's relationships to other genres and media, including music and visual culture. The course will emphasize modernism's engagements with shifting social norms related to race, class, gender, and sexuality during the first half of the twentieth century.