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Our dissertation focuses on a two-part literary corpus. The first group contains four novels dedicated to the wars of the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Created either by French ...read more

An important feature of literary modernism is its emphasis on ‘the now,’ its insistence on the present and the immediacy of experience. Modernist writers rejected the nineteenth-century fascination with the past ...read more

This research project examines a series of ‘Spanish’ epic poems written in the wake of the battle of Lepanto (1571). It explores the representation of the cultural Other in these ...read more

As Jean Racine (1639-1699) himself stated, love is “crucial to tragedy”, and the question was a central concern for his contemporaries: philosophers, theologians, moralists and theatre critics engaged in fierce debates on the nature of love ...read more