LITERATURA ESPAÑOLA CONTEMPORÁNEA

Lectures and seminars.

The course goes into depth with formal aspect of the texts taken in consideration, examining the literary skills of representative Spanish authors of the XXth century; it will provide an analysis of the use of beats, captions and the articulation of temporality in a play.

a) History of literature:

• AA.VV., La letteratura spagnola, (3º vol.), Milano, Rizzoli (the pages relating to the authors chosen by the student).
• AA.VV., Historia de la literatura española, (4º vol.), Barcelona, Ariel (the pages relating to the authors chosen by the student).
• AA.VV., Introducción a la literatura a través de los textos (4º vol.), Madrid, Istmo (the pages relating to the authors chosen by the student).
• C. GARCÍA BLANCO, Literatura española del siglo XX, Salamanca, Universidad (the pages relating to the authors chosen by the student).
• JOSÈ MARÍA MARTÍNEZ CACHERO, La novela española entre 1936 y el fin de siglo: Historia de una aventura. Madrid, Castalia, 1997 (the pages relating to the authors chosen by the student).

- LINA RODRÍGUEZ CACHO, Manual de historia de la literatura española, Volumen 2: Siglos XVIII al XX, Madrid, Castalia (the pages relating to the authors chosen by the student).

b) Anthology:

• Pilar Quel Barastegui, Antología de la literatura española. Vol. III (Siglo XX), Messina, Lippolis, 2005-2012 (the pages relating to the 15 authors chosen by the student).

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.

Analysis

Innovative structures of the Spanish-language theatre.

Texts:

-Alfonso Sastre, El cuervo (any edition);

-Ariel Dorfman, Lector, in Idem, Teatro 2, Buenos Aires, Ediciones de la Flor, 1996);

-José Antonio García Blázquez, El amante inanimado, intr. e trad. di D. A. Cusato, Messina, Lippolis, 1996;

-Mario Vargas Llosa, Kathie y el hipopótamo (any edition).

Critical texts:

-Domenico Antonio Cusato, “Lector” di Ariel Dorfman: le varie dimensioni della realtà, in AA. VV., Scritti in onore di Candido Panebianco, offerti da colleghi e allievi ispanisti dell’Università di Catania, a cura di D. A. Cusato, Messina, Lippolis 2009, pp. 67-79.

-Domenico Antonio Cusato, El teatro de Mario Vargas Llosa, Messina, Lippolis, 2007 (soltanto “Introducción”, pp. 11-21, e il cap. 2 (“Desfases temporales e intusiones metalépticas en Kathie y el hipopótamo”, pp. 53-86).