The section ‘Modern and Postmodern’ attempts to define the phenomena in question, that is relations between literary works of the Western writers and the aesthetic systems. It also focuses on analytical review of literary situation in Europe and America from early 19th to the turn of 20th-21th centuries. In assessing your applications, the advantage will be given to the reports on specific facts of literature on Modern and Postmodern, analysis and description of controversial and disputed literary works of the macro-epoch; both canonised and popular works.