SPANISH LITERATURE 1

The course aims: 1) to promote and/or to improve the study of Spanish literature, also providing the basic tools for in-depth analysis of literary texts; 2) to provide a broad, general survey of the development of the Siglos de Oros Spanish literature, with special emphasis on the main features of literary periods and movements and selected (major) authors; 3) to have undergraduates acquire critical habits in reading literature and to develop an understanding of the importance of social and cultural issues in literary texts.

The course is divided in two sections: A) general section, which concerns the study of the main features of literary periods and movements and selected (major) authors. B) In-depth analysis of Don Quijote.

C. Alvar, J.-C. Mainer-R. Navarro, Storia della letteratura spagnola, Torino, Einaudi, ultima ed, vol. I, Parte seconda (pp. 191-369).

L. Chines-C. Varotti, Cos’è un testo letterario, Roma, Carocci, 2015 (pp. 144).

Main authors subject for the analysis:

Garcilaso de la Vega

Gli storiografi del Nuovo Mondo

Il teatro (autos e farsas)

Il petrarchismo e la mistica: S. Juan de la Cruz e Aldana

Il romanzo cavalleresco: Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo

El Abencerraje

Lope de Rueda

Bartolomé de las Casas

Lope de Vega

Calderón de la Barca

Luis de Góngora

Francisco de Quevedo

Il romanzo picaresco

Miguel de Cervantes (Novelas ejemplares)

María de Zayas

Texts will be uploaded to Studium and with them the critical introductions that students must know in order to take the final exam.

B)

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote, Madrid, Cátedra (ultima ed.)

During the lessons will be read significant pieces of the work, but for the purposes of the final exam students must demonstrate the knowledge of the whole novel and critical readings that will be proposed during the lessons.