This course aims at introducing students to the major literary trends and movements of the modern European literary tradition from the 18^th to the mid-20^th century, i.e., roughly from romanticism up to the high literary modernism of the interwar period. 

At the end of the course the students are expected: 

• to be familiar with all literary trends from 18th to 20th C and the key writers of the Western tradition

• to be able: to place the movements and the writers chronologically and in relation to cultural history

• to associate the literary trends and writers with particular characteristics,

• to be able to perform a critical analysis of literary texts 

• to locate texts within aesthetic history and in relation to other art forms (music and painting) of the same period/trend.