A survey of theatre in Spain in the last eighty years, studied from a social, historical, and cultural perspective, with a double emphasis on text and performance. Students in this course will
This course provides an introduction to one of the fundamental chapters of twentieth-century literature: the generation known as the Latin American “boom”. Through the work of its most notable writers —Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and...
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with literary responses to the Holocaust in the hope that the aesthetic power inherent in the texts is strong enough to enable readers to face the shocking and depressing subject matter. The works are...
Spanish Literature has generated a significant number of literary myths in Western literature; these myths have been found in other literary works and have been noted in many imitations. El Quijote is a prime example, as well as others like Don Juan...
The course gives a survey of the most significant literary genres, issues and developments in German speaking countries from 1945 to the present. Prose works, poems and two stage plays by fascinating authors such as the Nobel Prize winners Nelly...
Berlin, with its turbulent history and striking contrasts, has inspired a broad range of poets, writers, and authors in Germany. From Alfred Döblin who depicted Berlin as a modernist and futuristic city in 1929, Christa Wolf imagining a city of...
A theoretical, historical and literary survey of the group of Spanish poets of the “generation of 1927” with a focus on selected representative works and the cultural climate that created the conditions for a new Golden Age in Spanish Literature.
This course considers how the pen has been used as both weapon and tool across decades of South African social activism, looking at writings that both enact and impact social and societal change. Covering a swathe of South African history both during...
Students in this course will study in detail the main literary and artistic movements linked to Salamanca and, especially, to the history of its university. As the University of Salamanca is one of the oldest universities in the world (founded in...
This interdisciplinary course offers students an introduction to Irish heroic literature, Celtic mythology and Irish fairy tales and folklore. We will read a selection of early Irish tales from The Mythological Cycle, The Ulster Cycle, The Cycle of...