This course is an introduction to French Literature, from the 16th century to the 20th century. It is based on the major literary genres (fables, tales, short stories, autobiography, theatre, poetry and novel). In addition, it will explore and...
This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of contemporary travel writing. After defining the reaches and limits of the travel writing genre and examining issues in contemporary travel texts, we focus on travel writing by contemporary...
Metropolises provide material and inspiration for their poetic production—conversely, literary texts shape our perception of cities. This assumption particularly applies to Vienna. Especially since the “Modern Age,” Vienna has been the subject of a...
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...