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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The aim of this interdisciplinary course is to analyze the Grand Tour as it took shape in Italy from the XIX century to the contemporary period, especially referring to the representation of Siena and Tuscany in Anglo-American literature. The course...
The aim of this course is to analyze fundamental traits of Italian literature in the context of modernity referring to a period which concerns both the passage from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century and the first phase of the twentieth...