The Irish imagination has long held a deep fascination with macabre stories of ghosts, changelings, and other supernatural manifestations. It is a legacy that can be traced back to the mythology and folklore of pagan times and, in some cases, such as...
This course explores how expatriation provided American writers of the 1920s and 1930s with a vantage point from which to critically engage notions of American identity and to shape the definition and development of American literature and culture...
This course explores how expatriation provided American writers of the 1920s and 1930s with a vantage point from which to critically engage notions of American identity and to shape the definition and development of American literature and culture...
This course has a two-pronged focus; on the one hand, it is an opportunity to undertake a detailed study of Shakespeare’s verbal and theatrical languages, and on the other hand, it equips you to investigate London’s importance in shaping Shakespeare...
The course offers a survey of the Italian theatre tradition, alternating between the long-established and traditionally 'popular' forms (commedia dell'arte, the Sicilian puppet theatre or opera dei pupi,political satire, narrative theatre and so on)...
The course will follow the development of the modern Italian novel, concentrating on its ability to express a world constantly oscillating between tradition and necessary innovations, history and the future, the weight of society and family ties and...
Over 12 weeks this course will facilitate student engagement with writing creatively with a concentration on poetry. Concurrently participants will trace the development of Irish poetry from early Irish poetry to Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire through...
The aim of this course is introducing Federico García Lorca’s life and work framed in the social, historical and artistic context of his time. Students are proposed a personal discovery of the Spanish author’s universe throughout the reading and...
This course focuses on four main topics related to different types of writing experiences that took place in modern Argentina. These topics reflect specific historical contexts and different cultural practices: “Tensions in Argentine culture: from a...
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