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19TH & 20TH-CENTURY ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE AND CULTURE

The MA programme "Nineteenth & Twentieth-Century Anglophone Literature and Culture" aims in fostering a deeply knowledgeable and critical engagement anglophone literature and culture. The courses offered cover a wide spectrum of texts, historical contexts and movements from the beginnings of the 19th century to the early decades of the 21st century. The students are encouraged to develop innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to the texts and to the relevant social, political and cultural issues under study. The courses rigorously engage the reciprocities and elective affinities between the various literary and theoretical texts while engaging methodological perspectives that intertwine literature, philosophy, theory, history, theory of art and social sciences.

In particular, the 2023-2025 programme cycle has as its thematic focus the "Narratives of Marginality and Exclusion", seeking to investigate phenomena of social marginalization and erasure as these are represented and critically engaged in a variety of literary, theoretical and cultural texts. Contemporary social, political and cultural phenomena are studied through the prism of literary, historical and theoretical texts that represent, critique and problematize the relations and exchanges between texts and the world, aesthetics and politics.

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COURSE SCHEDULE

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1st Semester Courses (Fall)

  • Research Methodology: Theoretical and Cultural Approaches to 19th and 20th century Anglophone Literature (Mina Karavanta)
  • Modernism, Marginality and Dissidence (Stamatina Dimakopoulou)
  • Borders in Contemporary Anglophone Literature (Angelos Evangelou)

2nd Semester Courses (Spring)

  • Space and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literature (Anna Despotopoulou)
  • Comics and the Graphic Novel: The Margin, the Gutter, and the Big Picture (Christina Dokou)
  • “Talking back to Shakespeare”: 20th and early 21st century anglophone novels penned by women (Vassiliki Markidou)

3rd Semester Courses (Fall)

Writing the Master’s Thesis

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