Courses
LT 312 - Literary Topographies: Spaces and Places of Vienna in Austrian Literature
Metropolises provide material and inspiration for their poetic production—conversely, literary texts shape our perception of cities. This assumption particularly applies to Vienna. Especially since the “Modern Age,” Vienna has been the subject of a...
LT 312 - Literature and Place
This course examines the connections between literature of various kinds and its settings and interrogates the reader’s reaction to the strategies by which place is depicted. We shall be studying fiction, drama and poetry and it is hoped that at...
LT 322 - Contemporary British Fiction
This course is designed to provide participants with an opportunity to read and study contemporary British fiction around the theme of being embattled. The texts under scrutiny range from novels about the World Wars, post-2nd WW challenges and...
LT 326 - Indigenous Literature
This course concentrates on the historical and literary perceptions of the natives before and during the Spanish Conquest. In order to achieve this purpose, we will focus on the relationship between literary representations of "the other". Also, the...
LT 330 - Dante's Commedia in Historical Context
The course focuses on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy as a fundamental text of Western civilization. The course considers the value of the Commedia within the history of literature, the relationship between author and environmental context, as well...
LT 331 - Comparative Central European Literature: Literature, Culture, History and Ideology in Hungary and in Eastern-Europe
The aim of this course is to promote dis-course between various modes human beings try to make sense of the world and themselves. We will adopt a basically “New Historicist” perspective to watch the interaction, from the middle of the 19th century to...
LT 331 - The Literature of Love
Italian literature finds a primary way of expression in words of love concerning women frequently subjected to a process of sublimation. This is illustrated in the works of the poets of Frederick II’s Sicilian court, Dante and Cavalcanti’s Stil novo...
LT 331 - Women in French and Francophone Literature
This is a course in French literature, in other words, a course of literary analysis and not feminism. We will analyze the themes developed by female writers, but always in relation to the analysis of style. Short stories, autobiographies, novels...
LT 332 - Comparative Central European Literature II: Literature, Culture, History and Ideology: Select Masterpieces of Eastern and Central European and American Literature
The aim of this course is to promote dis-course between various modes human beings try to make sense of the world and themselves. We will adopt a basically “New Historicist” perspective to watch the interaction, from the Modernist period to...