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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. 2022/2023
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
Training
6
F
-
Final exam
18
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°
Between the years: 1°- 2°
Further activities
6
F
-

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Teaching code

4S02888

Coordinator

Anna Bognolo

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/05 - SPANISH LITERATURE

Period

1 A, 1 B

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 circulation of the text in medieval Spain
Bibliography:
(Profilo storico) "La letteratura castigliana", Profilo delle letterature romanze medievali, a cura di F. Brugnolo, Roberta Cappelli, Roma, Carrocci editore, 2019, pp. 323-382;
Alberto Blecua, "La tradizione castigliana", Lo spazio letterario del Medioevo, 2. Il Medioevo volgare. La circolazione del testo, Salerno editrice, Roma, 2004, pp. 621-641;
Alfonso D'Agostino, "La Corte di Alfonso X di Castiglia", Lo spazio letterario del Medioevo, 2. Il Medioevo volgare. La produzione del testo, Salerno editrice, Roma, 2004, pp. 735-785;

Anna Bognolo: After Manutius. Spanish-language publishing in Venice in the early sixteenth century (Nicolini dal Sabbio, Giolito, Tramezzino)
Texts and materials will be provided in the e-learning portal.
Bibliography:
A. Marzo Magno, L’inventore di libri. Aldo Manuzio, Venezia e il suo tempo, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2020 (cap. 1-3 e 6-9).
A. Quondam , “Mercanzia d’onore. Mercanzia d’utile. Produzione libraria e lavoro intellettuale a Venezia nel Cinquecento”, in Libri, editori e pubblico nell’Europa moderna, ed. A. Petrucci, Bari, Laterza 1977

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.

Bibliography

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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