CONTEMPORARY SPANISH LITERATURE

Based on reading and analysis of selected texts, this course aims to give to the student an insight into the 20th century Spanish an Latin American literature. Through the study of Baroque as a central concept in literary studies, the course focuses upon the different literary trends, the aesthetic conceptions and the expressive techniques that conform this literary panorama.

In particular, the course aims to:

knowledge and understandig:

Identify and describe the cultural debate around the concept of Baroque and Neobaroque..

Identify and describe the neobaroque caracteristics in Spanish and Latin American literary texts

making judgement:

The student will be able to make a critical reading of academic texts and to express a critical judgement.

learning skills:

The student will be able to further extend his/her knowledge, skills an undestanding through continued studies.

1. The concept of Baroque: historical category or category of the spirit?

2. The Baroque Periode: main features, Reading and analysis of literary texts by Luis de Góngora y Argote and F. de Quevedo.

3. The Neo-Baroque: main features.

4. La poesía neobarroca y neobarrosa: Lezama Lima, O. Girondo, N. Perlongher.

5. Neobarroquismo y prosa: A. Carpentier, L. R. Sánchez, S. Sarduy.

Poetic texts:

Il Barocco storico: L. de Góngora e F. de Quevedo.

Neobarroco y Neobarroso: Lezama Lima e N. Perlongher.

Novels:

Carpentier, A., Concierto barroco, Madrid, Alianza, 1998.

Sánchez, L.R., La guaracha del macho Camacho, Madrid, Cátedra, 2000.

Sarduy, S., De donde son los cantantes, Madrid, Cátedra, 2010.

Further readings:

Calabrese, O., L’era neobarocca. Semiotica e cultura popolare, Lucca, La Casa Usher, 2013.

Chiampi, I., Barroco y modernidad, México, FCE, 2000.

Deleuze, G., El pliegue, Barcelona, Paidós, 1989.

D’Ors, E., Lo Barroco, Madrid, Alianza, 2002.

García de la Concha, V., «Barroco: categoría, sistema e historia literaria», Actas de la AISO, Salamanca, 1990, pp. 59-74.

Lezama Lima, J., La expresión americana, México, FCE, 1994.

Maravall, J. A., «La cultura del Barroco: una estructura histórica», en F. Rico (ed.), Historia y crítica de la literatura española, vol III, Siglos de Oro: Barroco, barcelona, Crítica, 1983, pp.49-53.

Perlongher, N., Caribe transplantino. Introducción a la poesía cubana y rioplatense, San Pablo, Editorial Illuminiras, 1991.

Sarduy, S., «Cosmología barroca», Ensayos generales sobre el barroco, Buenos Aires, FCE, 1897.

Sarduy, S., El barroco y el neobarroco, Buenos Aires, El cuenco de la plata, 2011.