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 will delve into the murky world of Celtic mythology and the magical folkloric traditions of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Through a combination of medieval texts and modern retellings we will explore the Irish...
This course takes up representations of Italy by Americans travelling abroad as means of tracing the US’s changing relationship to the world in the twentieth century. Italy offers a rich point of entry for this investigation: the country not only...
Irish dramatists have for many years been held in high esteem on the world stage. Students will study the development of this success and gain an insight into subject matters which inspire Irish Playwrights. Through focused study of selected plays...
Over twelve weekly sessions, this course will facilitate student engagement with writing creatively, with a concentration on the short story form. Concurrently, participants will trace the development of the modern Irish short story as a literary...