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Laurea magistrale in Editoria e giornalismo - Enrollment from 2025/2026

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Training
6
F
-
Final exam
18
E
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Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°
Between the years: 1°- 2°
Other activities
6
F
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mMasterful

Teaching code

4S02888

Coordinator

Anna Bognolo

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/05 - SPANISH LITERATURE

Period

CuCi IA, CuCi IB

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is to provide critical skills and tools to understand Spanish Literature and Culture in their historical and social context through reading and analyzing fundamental texts both in prose and verse. At the end of the course, students: - will learn about Spanish Literature in its historical and social context (genres and authors, picaresca, Lazarillo de Tormes and other authors); - will recognize the main characteristics of Spanish Literature; - will know the epistemological principles of the discipline and the peculiar characteristics of Spanish Literature and Culture.

Program

Andrea Zinato: The book and text before Gutenberg (and a look at medieval Spanish literature).
Bibliography:
Marco Cursi, Le forme del libro. Dalla tavoletta cerata all'e-book, Bologna, il Mulino, 2016, pp. 11-155;
Alberto Blecua, La tradizione castigliana, pp. 621-641, in Lo spazio letterario nel Medioevo, 2. Il Medioevo volgare, vol. II, La tradizione manoscritta e i rimaneggiamenti del testo: [Roma, Salerno editrice];
Gaetano Lalomia, Storia e geografia della tradizione manoscritta castigliana: il caso di raccolte di racconti, pp. 163-182, in La prosa medievale. Produzione e circolazione, a cura di M. Gaggetto, Roma- Bristol, Bretschneider, 2020.

Anna Bognolo: After Manutius. Spanish-language publishing in Venice in the early sixteenth century.
Bibliography:
Di Rosa Marisa Borracini: “Storia della stampa” (materiale in e-learning)
Armando Petrucci, “Alle origini del libro moderno. Libri da banco, libri da bisaccia, libretti da mano” in Libri, scrittura e pubblico nel Rinascimento, Bari, Laterza, 1979, pp, 139-155. (e-learning)

Stefano Neri: Three best-selling genres of Spanish literature: novela picaresca, comedia aurea, novela negra
Texts and materials will be provided in the e-learning portal.
Bibliography:
Maria Grazia Profeti, L’età d’oro della letteratura spagnola. Il Seicento, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1998, pp. 9-32 e 44-52.
Francisco Rico, Biblioteca spagnola, Torino, Einaudi, 1994, cap. L’invenzione del romanzo, pp. 105-115.
Stefano Tani, “Investigatore” in Dizionario Termini Letterari, Torino, UTET, 2007, v. II, pp. 1210-1214.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
Marco Cursi 1 Le forme del libro : dalla tavoletta all’e-book Il Mulino 2016 9788815265173
Armando Petrucci 2 Alle origini del libro moderno Laterza 1979 in moodle
Francisco Rico 3 Biblioteca spagnola Einaudi 1994 in moodle

Examination Methods

The final exam consists of an oral test on each of the three modules of the program. The exam will be intended to verify the depth and breadth of the acquired knowledge.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE