Teaching code

4S002948

Teacher

Felice Gambin

Coordinatore

Felice Gambin

Credits

6

Language

Spanish

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/05 - SPANISH LITERATURE

Period

I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 26, 2022 al Dec 23, 2022.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars

Learning objectives

The main formative aim of the teaching is to make the students acquirea high-level competence in critically approaching the classics of Spanish literature in depth. The results expected from their learning are the following: -Knowledge and heightened understanding: in-depth knowledge of the Spanish literature of the scheduled period: historical context, texts, genres, movements, and authors dealt with in the taught module, especially with reference to the themes of cultural interchange and to the formal differentiations of the literary phenomena. - “Applied” knowledge and heightened understanding: the students will acquire the necessary methodologies for putting them to use in working on literary texts within a historical and comparative perspective and in interpreting complex texts and implied meanings; they will have to be able to express themselves in fluent Spanish, arguing complex topics in a clear, ordered, and detailed way.

Prerequisites and basic notions

The Spanish Literature 3 exam can only be taken after having passed the second year’s exams of Spanish Language and Literature.

Program

Il viaggio dei pícaros e della pícaras nelle frontiere dei generi letterari
Compulsory Bibliography:
*Lazarillo de Tormes, a cura di A. Gargano, Venezia, Marsilio editore, 2017.
* Francisco Rico, La novela picaresca y el punto de vista, Barcelona, Seix Barral, 1970 (F. Rico, Il romanzo picaresco e il punto di vista, Milano, Bruno Mondadori Editore, 2001).
*Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla, prólogo a Picaresca femenina de Alonso de Castillo Solórzano: Teresa de Manzanares y La Garduña de Sevilla, Madrid, Universidad de Navarra-Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2012, pp. 9-158.
*Also, one of the following books:
*Alfonso de Castillo Solórzano, Las harpías de Madrid, edición de Pablo Jauralde Pou, Madrid, Castalia, 1985.
*Picaresca femenina de Alonso de Castillo Solórzano: Teresa de Manzanares y La Garduña de Sevilla, Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, ed. de Fernando Rodríguez Mansilla, Madrid, Universidad de Navarra-Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2012 (one of the two works)
*Francisco López de Úbeda, La pícara Justina, ed. David Mañero, Madrid, Cátedra.
*Mateo Alemán, Guzmán de Alfarache.
*Francisco de Quevedo, El Buscón, ed. de D. Ynduráin, Madrid, Cátedra.
*Vicente Espinel, Marcos de Obregón.
*Carlos García, La desordenada codicia de los bienes ajenos.
*Juan de Luna, Segunda parte del Lazarillo.
*Antonio Enríquez Gómez, El Siglo pitágorico y vida de Gregorio Guadaña, Madrid, Cátedra.
*La vida y hechos de Estebanillo González: hombre de buen humor compuesto por el mesmo, ed. de A. Carreira y A. Cid, Madrid, Cátedra, 2018 (2 voll.)
°Further information about bibliography will be held during the first lesson.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

The course will consist of a series of lectures which foresee the active involvement of the students. Lectures will be held in Spanish.
If you need to isolate because you test positive for Covid, please contact the teacher to arrange for supplementary material.

Learning assessment procedures

The exam will be an oral discussion in Spanish.
* ERASMUS students are asked to contact with the teacher at the beginning of the course to agree together on the exam methods.

Evaluation criteria

A final oral exam will assess:
- a deep knowledge of primary and secondary texts;
- the capacity to read and interpret the literary texts analyzed;
- the capacity to articulate effectively the information and critical assessments concerning texts and topics discussed in class;
- the capacity to express and critically argue in Spanish.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The final mark will result from the average of the grades assigned according to the four criteria described above.

Exam language

spagnolo