SCIENZE UMANISTICHEScience of Language for interculture and educationAcademic Year 2022/2023

9793888 - LITERATURA ESPAÑOLA

Teacher: ROSSELLA LIUZZO

Expected Learning Outcomes

Based on reading and analysis of selected texts, this course aims to develop the student’s critical understanding of Spanish literature, from the beginning of the 20th century to the Spanish transition to democracy. The course focuses upon the different literary trends, the aesthetic conceptions and the expressive techniques that conform this literary panorama.

Expected learning outcomes:

Knowledge and understanding:

Students will be able to dentify and describe the trends, movements, authors and literary works of Spanish literature during the studied period.

Making judgement:

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

Comunication skills:

Students will be able to articulate central course concepts and express them, orally, in formal presentations or in clearly written and well-argued papers.

Learning skills:

Students will be able to further extend their knowledge, skills an undestanding through continued studies.

Course Structure

Lectures, seminars, videoconferences;

Detailed Course Content

Divided into two modules, the course will be held in Spanish.

The course will be centered both on the literary strains and tendencies and the most representative figures of peninsular Spanish contemporary literature. Throughout the course, students will read and analyze works of prose and poetry with a consideration of their cultural, social, historical and philosophical context.

The module explicitly addresses each of the following themes:

Tema 1: La crisis de fin de siglo y el tránsito al siglo XX

Tema 2: Novecentismo, Vanguardias y Grupo del 27

Tema 3: Rumbos de la poesía de 1936 a 1975

Tema 4: Avatares de la novela, de la posguerra al 1975

Tema 5: algunas calas en la literatura de la Transición a la actualidad.

 The materials that will be used in class, including the chosen extracts and bibliographical references, will be immediately made available through STUDIUM.

Textbook Information

1.   Textbook:

One of the following textbooks:

- LINA RODRÍGUEZ CACHO, Manual de Historia de la Literatura española 2, Siglos XVIII al XX, Barcelona, Castalia, 2017. (Solo la Cuarta parte)
- GABRIELE MORELLI; DANILO MANERA, Letteratura spagnola del Novecento. Dal modernismo al postmodernismo, Milano, Mondadori, 2007.

3. Books:

- UNAMUNO, M. de, La tía Tula (1921), Madrid, Cátedra, 2007.
- LAFORET, C., Nada (1944)Madrid, Cátedra, 2020.
- AA. VV., Cuento español de Posguerra: Antología, Medardo Fraile, ed., Madrid, Cátedra, 2008. (cinque racconti a scelta)

- MARTÍN GAITE, C., Usos amorosos de la posguerra española, Barcelona, Anagrama, 2017..

3. Criticism

CRUZ-CÁMARA, N., «“Chicas raras” en dos novelas de Carmen Martín Gaite y Carmen Laforet», Hispanófila139, 2003, pp. 97-110,

- PÉREZ-BUSTAMANTE MOURIER, A. S., «El cuento literario en la posguerra: imágenes de infancia», La literatura española alrededor de 1950: panorama de una diversidad, Ana Sofía Pérez-Bustamante MourierManuel José Ramos OrtegaJosé Jurado Morales (eds,), 1995, págs. 141-174. (https://rodin.uca.es/handle/10498/16183)

- STENSTROM, M., «Acercamiento al pensamiento de Unamuno: la Tía Tula y la luche entre fe y razón»Revista de filosofía, 55, 1, 2007, (https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=3391412)

4. Anthology of literary texts:

An anthology of poetic texts will be made available through STUDIUM.

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).


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