Teaching code

4S002908

Teacher

Katiuscia Darici

Coordinatore

Katiuscia Darici

Credits

9

Language

Spanish

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/05 - SPANISH LITERATURE

Period

I semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Sep 30, 2019 al Jan 11, 2020.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars

Learning outcomes

The main aim of the course is to provide students of the Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce with:
- Knowledge and comprehension skills: A general knowledge of the literary, cultural and historical context of the Spanish reality of a given epoch (main writers/texts/movements/genres discussed in class)
- Applied skills: Ability to read critically the literary texts included in the reading list, by putting into use the theoretical knowledge gained in class
- Communication skills: Ability to express oneself and critically argue in Spanish

Program

Title: Identidad(es) y lugares: the emotional bond between person and place

This course is divided into two parts:
1) A first part consists of an introduction to the history, culture and literature of the Spanish Golden Age (and the reading of a work by Lope de Vega);
2) A second, more substantial part, concerns itself of contemporary literature. Starting from a key novel of the Spanish transition to democracy (“La città dei prodigi”, by Eduardo Mendoza) the course deals with the representation of the individual and his attachment to places: the city; the immigration in Catalonia (first from within Spain, in the middle of the 20th century; later on, from outside Europe). In this case, the historical, cultural and artistic evolution of Barcelona since the Modernism to the present, provides the ideal background for a critical approach to the proposed case studies: the individual and the city (Mendoza; Pérez Andújar) as well as the identity (both personal and social), between the local and the global (Mendoza, Pérez Andújar, Puntí). The emancipation of the individual, already present in Mendoza, is extended in the novels by Regàs and El Hachmi, including a youth and a woman’s perspective. Finally, each of the novels of choice (Carnero, Martínez Rubio, Miguel, Redondo) represents a first novel published in 2019, a way to learn about the current situation of the Spanish literary scenery with a particular attention to debut novelists.

DETAILED PROGRAM: please see Italian version.

Any extra materials analyzed during the course will be made available, where possible, also online.

The course will be taught in Spanish and all class conversations will be conducted in Spanish.

Examination Methods

The student has two options:
Option 1: partial written test + oral exam on the remaining part of the course. The written test will consists of open questions with a short answer as well as multiple choice questions.
Option 2: oral test (on the whole program).

The exam will be held in Spanish.