1. Approaches to the concept of literature and new approaches to literary theory in the twenty-first century. The reformulation of the literary canon.
2. The Rupture of Cultural Modernity in the Context of Postmodernity: Debates and Redefinitions for Our Time
3. New approaches to narrative: theory of affects, cognitive narratology and studies of temporality and history.
4. Poetic language in the construction of contemporary subjectivities.
- Ambiguity as a resource for self-definition
- The break with utilitarian communication
- Rhythm and sonority as expressions of the self
- The representation of fragmented and multiple experiences
- The poetic act as resistance and reconfiguration of the self
- The connection between poetic language and community
5. Approaches to comparative literature.
- Definition and evolution of comparative literature
- Fundamental concepts of comparative literature: intertextuality, literary canon, translation theory and adaptation
- Reception theory
- Comparative literature and cultural studies.
6. Recent paradigms of postcolonial studies and postcolonial theory.
- Voices of subalternity
- Biopolitical and necropolitical turns in the literature of the present
7. Queer Theory and New Gender Studies
- The decentralization of sex-gender binary systems
- The space of transgender literature in the literary canon
- Queer temporality and the rupture of narrative linearity
- Intersectionality of gender, race, class, and sexuality
8. Literary representations at the crossroads of posthumanism and the ecosocial crisis
- Hybrid identities and new subjectivity at the border of the human and the non-human
- Ecocriticism and environmental studies. Sustainable narratives in the face of the climate crisis, resource exploitation and anthropocentrism.
