This course provides an introduction to one of the fundamental chapters of twentieth-century literature: the generation known as the Latin American “boom”. Through the work of its most notable writers —Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and...
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with literary responses to the Holocaust in the hope that the aesthetic power inherent in the texts is strong enough to enable readers to face the shocking and depressing subject matter. The works are...
This seminar will examine how burning social issues are discussed in contemporary German literature. What differences and similarities can we identify and what possible explanations exist? Students will question assumptions about German and American...
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 examines representations of Americans travelling in Italy as a lens for exploring 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...