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B026265 - SPANISH LITERATURE 2 (12 CFU)
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Academic Year 2018-19
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Languages, Literatures and Intercultural Studies
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-LIN/05 - SPANISH LITERATURE
Credits
12
Teaching Hours
72
Teaching Term
26/02/2019 ⇒ 07/06/2019
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B005318 - LETTERATURA SPAGNOLA 1 (12 CFU)
Second Cycle Degree in EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Curriculum STUDI LETTERARI E CULTURALI INTERNAZIONALI
B005318 - LETTERATURA SPAGNOLA 1 (12 CFU)
Second Cycle Degree in EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Curriculum STUDI LETTERARI E CULTURALI INTERNAZIONALI
Teaching Language
spanish
Course Content
The journey in Spanish literature: a look towards (and from) America.
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FIRST MODULE: THE CONQUEST OF NUEVO MUNDO BETWEEN EXALTATION AND DISPUTES
1. The journey in the Middle Ages and in the modern era: literary travel and travel literature.
2. The American epic in the Crónicas de Indias:
BERNAL DÍAZ DEL CASTILLO, Historia verdadera de la Conquest de la Nueva España. Antología, ed. by Guillermo Serés, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2016.
3. The conquest of America in the theater of the Siglo de Oro:
LOPE DE VEGA, El nuevo mundo de Cristobal Colón, critical edition by Jean Lemartinel and Charles Minguet, Lille, Presses universitaires de Lille, 1980.
SECOND MODULE: AMERICA IN THE CONTEMPORARY LETTERS
I. North American Impressions:
I.1. En route to New York:
JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ, Diary of a poet recién casado (1916), ed. by Michael P. Predmore, Madrid, Cátedra, 2018.
FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA, Poeta en Nueva York, primera edición of the original fijada y anotada by Andrew A. Anderson, Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2015.
II. The external gaze: Spain has been turned over through the eyes of a North American student
RAMÓN J. SENDER, La tesis de Nancy, Madrid, Casals, 2007.
III. The narration of otherness:
III.1. Identity and putty:
JOSÉ MARÍA MERINO, Las crónicas mestizas, Madrid, Alfaguara, 1998.
III.2. Travel and memory:
KIRMEN URIBE, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao, Barcelona, Seix-Barral, 2010.
CRITICISM AND NOTIONS OF LITERARY HISTORY:
In preparing the program, students will have to carefully read the critical introductions to the individual texts inserted. For a general overview of the different periods of Spanish literature that allows the critical approach to the texts indicated, the following manual is highly recommended:
Felipe PEDRAZA JIMÉNEZ, Milagros RODRÍGUEZ CÁCERES, Las épocas de la literatura española, Barcelona, Ariel, 2012.
For further information, the following essays can be consulted:
ARELLANO, Ignacio (ed.), Las Indias (América) en la literatura del Siglo de Oro. Homenaje a Jesús Cañedo, Kassel, Reichenberger, 1992.
PEÑATE RIVERO, Julio (ed.), Relato de viaje y literaturas hispánicas, Madrid, Visor, 2004.
PEÑATE RIVERO, Julio - UZCANGA MEINECHE, Francisco (eds.), El viaje en la literatura hispánica: de Juan Valera a Sergio Pitol, Madrid, Verbum, 2007.
SOLODKOW, David Mauricio, La conquista de América en el teatro del Siglo de Oro, en Tiempo e historia en el teatro del Siglo de Oro. Actas selectas del XVI Congreso Internacional. Nueva edición, ed. di Isabelle Rouane Soupault e Philippe Meunier, Aix-en-Provence, Presses universitaires de Provence, 2015 <http://books.openedition.org/pup/4528>
TODOROV, Tzvetan, La conquista dell'America. Il problema dell'altro, Torino, Einaudi, 2014.
VUELTA GARCÍA, Salomé, La letteratura basca prende il largo: il mare di Kirmen Uribe, «LEA», 5, 2016, pp. 313-331.
1. The journey in the Middle Ages and in the modern era: literary travel and travel literature.
2. The American epic in the Crónicas de Indias:
BERNAL DÍAZ DEL CASTILLO, Historia verdadera de la Conquest de la Nueva España. Antología, ed. by Guillermo Serés, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2016.
3. The conquest of America in the theater of the Siglo de Oro:
LOPE DE VEGA, El nuevo mundo de Cristobal Colón, critical edition by Jean Lemartinel and Charles Minguet, Lille, Presses universitaires de Lille, 1980.
SECOND MODULE: AMERICA IN THE CONTEMPORARY LETTERS
I. North American Impressions:
I.1. En route to New York:
JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ, Diary of a poet recién casado (1916), ed. by Michael P. Predmore, Madrid, Cátedra, 2018.
FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA, Poeta en Nueva York, primera edición of the original fijada y anotada by Andrew A. Anderson, Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2015.
II. The external gaze: Spain has been turned over through the eyes of a North American student
RAMÓN J. SENDER, La tesis de Nancy, Madrid, Casals, 2007.
III. The narration of otherness:
III.1. Identity and putty:
JOSÉ MARÍA MERINO, Las crónicas mestizas, Madrid, Alfaguara, 1998.
III.2. Travel and memory:
KIRMEN URIBE, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao, Barcelona, Seix-Barral, 2010.
CRITICISM AND NOTIONS OF LITERARY HISTORY:
In preparing the program, students will have to carefully read the critical introductions to the individual texts inserted. For a general overview of the different periods of Spanish literature that allows the critical approach to the texts indicated, the following manual is highly recommended:
Felipe PEDRAZA JIMÉNEZ, Milagros RODRÍGUEZ CÁCERES, Las épocas de la literatura española, Barcelona, Ariel, 2012.
For further information, the following essays can be consulted:
ARELLANO, Ignacio (ed.), Las Indias (América) en la literatura del Siglo de Oro. Homenaje a Jesús Cañedo, Kassel, Reichenberger, 1992.
PEÑATE RIVERO, Julio (ed.), Relato de viaje y literaturas hispánicas, Madrid, Visor, 2004.
PEÑATE RIVERO, Julio - UZCANGA MEINECHE, Francisco (eds.), El viaje en la literatura hispánica: de Juan Valera a Sergio Pitol, Madrid, Verbum, 2007.
SOLODKOW, David Mauricio, La conquista de América en el teatro del Siglo de Oro, en Tiempo e historia en el teatro del Siglo de Oro. Actas selectas del XVI Congreso Internacional. Nueva edición, ed. di Isabelle Rouane Soupault e Philippe Meunier, Aix-en-Provence, Presses universitaires de Provence, 2015 <http://books.openedition.org/pup/4528>
TODOROV, Tzvetan, La conquista dell'America. Il problema dell'altro, Torino, Einaudi, 2014.
VUELTA GARCÍA, Salomé, La letteratura basca prende il largo: il mare di Kirmen Uribe, «LEA», 5, 2016, pp. 313-331.
Learning Objectives
The course focuses on the relationship between Spanish literature and America in two emblematic moments: the conquest of Nuevo Mundo, lived between exaltation and controversy, and the twentieth century, where the gaze towards (and from) America serves to tell the contradictions and the anguish of today's man, such as the problem of identity and the construction of memory. It is divided into two parts: a first module dedicated to the literary consequences that brought with it the conquest of America, from the birth of a new genre arose from the need to tell the shocking American reality and the deeds of conquest, the Crónicas de Indias, baroque theatricalization of lived events; and a second module dedicated to the poetic impact with the United States in the early twentieth century Spanish and to the Spanish narrative of the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first that looks towards America.
Prerequisites
A good knowledge of Spanish language (B2) and basic notions of philology are required.
Teaching Methods
Lectures.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination
The final examination, oral, will examine:
1 ) Knowledge of the basic notions of Spanish literary history of XVI - XX centuries.
2 ) The complete reading and critically aware of the texts.
An incomplete preparation of any of these two points will not allow to pass the exam.
The final examination, oral, will examine:
1 ) Knowledge of the basic notions of Spanish literary history of XVI - XX centuries.
2 ) The complete reading and critically aware of the texts.
An incomplete preparation of any of these two points will not allow to pass the exam.
Course program
Lecturer: Prof. Salomé Vuelta García
Teaching: SPANISH LITERATURE 1 and 2 (LM-37 and LM-14)
CFU: 12
SEMESTER: Second
The journey in Spanish literature: a look towards (and from) America
The course focuses on the relationship between Spanish literature and America in two emblematic moments: the conquest of Nuevo Mundo, lived between exaltation and controversy, and the twentieth century, where the gaze towards (and from) America serves to tell the contradictions and the anguish of today's man, such as the problem of identity and the construction of memory. It is divided into two parts: a first module dedicated to the literary consequences that brought with it the conquest of America, from the birth of a new genre arose from the need to tell the shocking American reality and the deeds of conquest, the Crónicas de Indias, baroque theatricalization of lived events; and a second module dedicated to the poetic impact with the United States in the early twentieth century Spanish and to the Spanish narrative of the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first that looks towards America.
FIRST MODULE: THE CONQUEST OF NUEVO MUNDO BETWEEN EXALTATION AND DISPUTES
1. The journey in the Middle Ages and in the modern era: literary travel and travel literature.
2. The American epic in the Crónicas de Indias:
BERNAL DÍAZ DEL CASTILLO, Historia verdadera de la Conquest de la Nueva España. Antología, ed. by Guillermo Serés, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2016.
3. The conquest of America in the theater of the Siglo de Oro:
LOPE DE VEGA, El nuevo mundo de Cristobal Colón, critical edition by Jean Lemartinel and Charles Minguet, Lille, Presses universitaires de Lille, 1980.
SECOND MODULE: AMERICA IN THE CONTEMPORARY LETTERS
I. North American Impressions:
I.1. En route to New York:
JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ, Diary of a poet recién casado (1916), ed. by Michael P. Predmore, Madrid, Cátedra, 2018.
FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA, Poeta en Nueva York, primera edición of the original fijada y anotada by Andrew A. Anderson, Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2015.
II. The external gaze: Spain has been turned over through the eyes of a North American student
RAMÓN J. SENDER, La tesis de Nancy, Madrid, Casals, 2007.
III. The narration of otherness:
III.1. Identity and putty:
JOSÉ MARÍA MERINO, Las crónicas mestizas, Madrid, Alfaguara, 1998.
III.2. Travel and memory:
KIRMEN URIBE, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao, Barcelona, Seix-Barral, 2010.
CRITICISM AND NOTIONS OF LITERARY HISTORY:
In preparing the program, students will have to carefully read the critical introductions to the individual texts inserted. For a general overview of the different periods of Spanish literature that allows the critical approach to the texts indicated, the following manual is highly recommended:
Felipe PEDRAZA JIMÉNEZ, Milagros RODRÍGUEZ CÁCERES, Las épocas de la literatura española, Barcelona, Ariel, 2012.
For further information, the following essays can be consulted:
ARELLANO, Ignacio (ed.), Las Indias (América) en la literatura del Siglo de Oro. Homenaje a Jesús Cañedo, Kassel, Reichenberger, 1992.
PEÑATE RIVERO, Julio (ed.), Relato de viaje y literaturas hispánicas, Madrid, Visor, 2004.
PEÑATE RIVERO, Julio - UZCANGA MEINECHE, Francisco (eds.), El viaje en la literatura hispánica: de Juan Valera a Sergio Pitol, Madrid, Verbum, 2007.
SOLODKOW, David Mauricio, La conquista de América en el teatro del Siglo de Oro, en Tiempo e historia en el teatro del Siglo de Oro. Actas selectas del XVI Congreso Internacional. Nueva edición, ed. di Isabelle Rouane Soupault e Philippe Meunier, Aix-en-Provence, Presses universitaires de Provence, 2015 <http://books.openedition.org/pup/4528>
TODOROV, Tzvetan, La conquista dell'America. Il problema dell'altro, Torino, Einaudi, 2014.
VUELTA GARCÍA, Salomé, La letteratura basca prende il largo: il mare di Kirmen Uribe, «LEA», 5, 2016, pp. 313-331.
Frequency, student work and final verification
The frequency directs the student in the personal study that is however essential.
The final oral exam will verify:
1) Knowledge of the basic notions of Spanish literary history of the Golden and Twentieth Century.
2) The complete and critically conscious reading of the texts.
Incomplete preparation on any of these two points will not allow the exam to be passed.
Teaching: SPANISH LITERATURE 1 and 2 (LM-37 and LM-14)
CFU: 12
SEMESTER: Second
The journey in Spanish literature: a look towards (and from) America
The course focuses on the relationship between Spanish literature and America in two emblematic moments: the conquest of Nuevo Mundo, lived between exaltation and controversy, and the twentieth century, where the gaze towards (and from) America serves to tell the contradictions and the anguish of today's man, such as the problem of identity and the construction of memory. It is divided into two parts: a first module dedicated to the literary consequences that brought with it the conquest of America, from the birth of a new genre arose from the need to tell the shocking American reality and the deeds of conquest, the Crónicas de Indias, baroque theatricalization of lived events; and a second module dedicated to the poetic impact with the United States in the early twentieth century Spanish and to the Spanish narrative of the second half of the twentieth century and first decades of the twenty-first that looks towards America.
FIRST MODULE: THE CONQUEST OF NUEVO MUNDO BETWEEN EXALTATION AND DISPUTES
1. The journey in the Middle Ages and in the modern era: literary travel and travel literature.
2. The American epic in the Crónicas de Indias:
BERNAL DÍAZ DEL CASTILLO, Historia verdadera de la Conquest de la Nueva España. Antología, ed. by Guillermo Serés, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 2016.
3. The conquest of America in the theater of the Siglo de Oro:
LOPE DE VEGA, El nuevo mundo de Cristobal Colón, critical edition by Jean Lemartinel and Charles Minguet, Lille, Presses universitaires de Lille, 1980.
SECOND MODULE: AMERICA IN THE CONTEMPORARY LETTERS
I. North American Impressions:
I.1. En route to New York:
JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ, Diary of a poet recién casado (1916), ed. by Michael P. Predmore, Madrid, Cátedra, 2018.
FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA, Poeta en Nueva York, primera edición of the original fijada y anotada by Andrew A. Anderson, Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2015.
II. The external gaze: Spain has been turned over through the eyes of a North American student
RAMÓN J. SENDER, La tesis de Nancy, Madrid, Casals, 2007.
III. The narration of otherness:
III.1. Identity and putty:
JOSÉ MARÍA MERINO, Las crónicas mestizas, Madrid, Alfaguara, 1998.
III.2. Travel and memory:
KIRMEN URIBE, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao, Barcelona, Seix-Barral, 2010.
CRITICISM AND NOTIONS OF LITERARY HISTORY:
In preparing the program, students will have to carefully read the critical introductions to the individual texts inserted. For a general overview of the different periods of Spanish literature that allows the critical approach to the texts indicated, the following manual is highly recommended:
Felipe PEDRAZA JIMÉNEZ, Milagros RODRÍGUEZ CÁCERES, Las épocas de la literatura española, Barcelona, Ariel, 2012.
For further information, the following essays can be consulted:
ARELLANO, Ignacio (ed.), Las Indias (América) en la literatura del Siglo de Oro. Homenaje a Jesús Cañedo, Kassel, Reichenberger, 1992.
PEÑATE RIVERO, Julio (ed.), Relato de viaje y literaturas hispánicas, Madrid, Visor, 2004.
PEÑATE RIVERO, Julio - UZCANGA MEINECHE, Francisco (eds.), El viaje en la literatura hispánica: de Juan Valera a Sergio Pitol, Madrid, Verbum, 2007.
SOLODKOW, David Mauricio, La conquista de América en el teatro del Siglo de Oro, en Tiempo e historia en el teatro del Siglo de Oro. Actas selectas del XVI Congreso Internacional. Nueva edición, ed. di Isabelle Rouane Soupault e Philippe Meunier, Aix-en-Provence, Presses universitaires de Provence, 2015 <http://books.openedition.org/pup/4528>
TODOROV, Tzvetan, La conquista dell'America. Il problema dell'altro, Torino, Einaudi, 2014.
VUELTA GARCÍA, Salomé, La letteratura basca prende il largo: il mare di Kirmen Uribe, «LEA», 5, 2016, pp. 313-331.
Frequency, student work and final verification
The frequency directs the student in the personal study that is however essential.
The final oral exam will verify:
1) Knowledge of the basic notions of Spanish literary history of the Golden and Twentieth Century.
2) The complete and critically conscious reading of the texts.
Incomplete preparation on any of these two points will not allow the exam to be passed.