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
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...
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...