Comentario de textos literarios en lengua española

The course is aimed at developing and going into depth with the main cultural features and phenomena, literary genres and mainstream authors of XXth century Spanish literature. It also aims at consolidating interpretative and critical skills in studying contemporary Spanish texts through the narratological analysis of temporality and narrator’s voice.

Lectures

The course goes into depth with formal aspect of the texts taken in consideration, examining the narrative skills of representative Spanish authors of the XXth century; it will provide an analysis of the use of the narrator’s voice and temporality.

a) Literature:

• AA.VV., La letteratura spagnola, (3º vol.), Milano, Rizzoli (pagine relative agli autori scelti dallo studente).
• AA.VV., Historia de la literatura española, (4º vol.), Barcelona, Ariel (pagine relative agli autori scelti dallo studente).
• AA.VV., Introducción a la literatura a través de los textos (4º vol.), Madrid, Istmo (pagine relative agli autori scelti dallo studente).
• C. GARCÍA BLANCO, Literatura española del siglo XX, Salamanca, Universidad (pagine relative agli autori scelti dallo studente).
• JOSÈ MARÍA MARTÍNEZ CACHERO, La novela española entre 1936 y el fin de siglo: Historia de una aventura. Madrid, Castalia, 1997 (pagine relative agli autori scelti dallo studente).
• LINA RODRÍGUEZ CACHO, Manual de historia de la literatura española, Volumen 2: Siglos XVIII al XX, Madrid, Castalia (pagine relative agli autori scelti dallo studente).

b) Anthology:

• Pilar Quel Barastegui, Antología de la literatura española. Vol. I (Edad Media y Renacimiento), Vol. II (del Barroco al Realismo), Vol. III (Siglo XX), Messina, Lippolis, 2005-2012 (pagine relative agli autori scelti dallo studente).

c) Methodological texts:

- GERARD GENETTE, Figure III. Discorso del racconto, Torino, Einaudi.

- ANGELO MARCHESE, Dizionario di retorica e stilistica, Milano, Mondadori.

– IDEM, L’officina del racconto, Milano, Mondadori.

Required reading:

• Miguel de Cervantes, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha – 1st book (any edition).

Analysis

Innovative structures of Spanish fiction.

Text:

Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo, México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1955 (or any edition) (from p. 7 to p. 119).

Critical text:

Domenico Antonio Cusato, Dentro del laberinto. Estudios sobre la estructura de” Pedro Páramo”, Roma, Bulzoni, 1993 (from p. 11 to p. 88).

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the program can be consulted in the Library.