British Literature

The course provides a critical reading of the different cultural and historical circumstances of British literature after WWII and focuses on specific postwar literary texts for a convenient analysis. The socioeconomic and cultural aftermaths of the Second World War are thereby detected in postwar English literature. Indeed, British literature, in all its forms and genres, poetry, drama, and prose, have been shaped by the postwar conditions to draw playfully a map of postwar Britain where the common man is compelled to live in a chaotic world. The course requires the selection of relevant texts that correspond to such trends as postmodernism, theatre of the Absurd, women's writing and postcolonialism within the British context after 1945. 

M2 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

RESEARCH METHO LESSONS

Texts and Contexts in US Foreign Relations

The course provides an introduction to US Foreign Policy and to an overview of its history. The course engages US foreign policy principles through a corpus of selected texts (primary documents and secondary sources) that enable students grasp the basic foundations, the continuity and the changes of the United States' behaviour and its relations with the rest of the world.