This course embraces literature and social history, introducing students to the works of Charles Dickens and the world in which he wrote. In the nineteenth century, London was the largest city in the world: a place of vastly inflated wealth and...
The part that storytelling has played and continues to play in Irish life is difficult to underestimate. Perhaps more than any other English speaking nation, the Irish have an affinity with and aptitude for narrative that places story at the core of...
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...