Teaching code

4S002902

Teacher

Felice Gambin

Coordinator

Felice Gambin

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/05 - SPANISH LITERATURE

Period

II semestre (Lingue e letterature straniere) dal Feb 15, 2021 al May 29, 2021.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

The main aim of this course, which is part of the Bachelor's degree in Languages and Cultures for Tourism and International Commerce, is to provide the acquisition by students of an appropriate knowledge of Spanish Culture, with particular attention to the historical, geographic and anthropological fields. At the end of the course students will be expected to acquire: - knowledge and comprehension skills: in-depth knowledge of the Spanish Culture of the period planned, as well as its historical, geographic and anthropological fields. - “Applied” knowledge and comprehension skills: students will acquire the necessary methodologies to understand complex and quite long texts, as well as implied meanings.

Program

The representations of the Spanish Civil War, the period of Franco's dictatorship and the transition towards democracy through some novels and some novelas gráficas. Study of the principal literary and artistic movements of the XX and XXI centuries

Compulsory Bibliography:
- Pedraza Jiménez, Felipe B., Rodríguez Cáceres, Milagros (2012), Las épocas de la literatura española, Madrid, Ariel, ch. 8, 9, 10 e 11.
- Gambin, Felice ( a cura di), Segni della memoria. Disegnare la Guerra civile spagnola, Alessandria, Dell’Orso, 2020.
*Also, 2 the following books:
Paco Roca, Lo surcos del azar, Bilbao, Astiberri, 2016.
Antonio Altarriba-Kim, El arte de volar, Barcelona, Norma editorial, 2016.
Alfonso Zapico, La balada del norte, Bilbao, Astiberri, 2015 (volume I).
Alfonso Zapico, La balada del norte, Bilbao, Astiberri, 2017 (volume II).
Alfonso Zapico, La balada del norte, Bilbao, Astiberri, 2019 (volume III).
Vittorio Giardino, No Pasarán, Milano, Rizzoli-Lizard, 2013 (edizione integrale).
Carlos Giménez, Todo 36-39. Malos tiempos, prólogo de Ramiro Pinilla, 2011.

Also, 1 the following books:
Cercas, Javier, Soldados de Salamina
Carmen Laforet, Nada
Camilo Cela, La familia de Pascual Duarte
Miguel Delibes, Cinco horas con Marío
Or another novel, even very recent, to be agreed with the teacher.


Recommended but not required critical bibliography:

Paul Preston, La guerra civil española. Guión de José Pablo García, Madrid, Debate, 2016.
Cercas, Javier; García, José Pablo, Soldados de Salamina, Madrid, Reservoir Book, 2019.
Michel Matly, El cómic sobre la guerra vivil, Madrid, Cátedra, 2018.
José Manuel Trabado Cabado (ed), Género y conciencia autoral en el cómic español, León, Universidad de León, 2019.
Guy Hermet, Storia della Spagna del Nocevento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1992.

Giuliana Di Febo, Santos Juliá, Il Franchismo, Roma, Carocci, 2003.

Claudio Venza, Anarchia e potere nella Guerra civile spagnola (1936-1939), Milano, Eléuthera, 2016.
Harry Browne, La guerra civile spagnola, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2000.
Daniele Barbieri, Semiotica del fumetto, Roma, Carocci, 2017.
Historieta o Cómic. Biografía de la narración gráfica en España, Venezia, Edizioni Cà Foscari, 2017. http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni/libri/978-88-6969-145-4/
Ana Merino, El cómic hispánico, Madrid, Ediciones Catedra, 2003.
Antonio Martín, Apuntes para una historia de los tebeos, Barcelona, Glénat, 2000.
Pepe Gálvez, Vittorio Giardino. Variaciones sobre la línea clara, León, Eolas Ediciones, 2019.

The teaching method will involve frontal lessons. Further materials will be available in the e-learning platform. The instructors are available one day a week for office hours (see WEB).

Examination Methods

The course is structured in frontal lessons.
Examination is intended to verify the level of knowledge, understanding and analysis. It will be in Italian or Spanish, by student's choice.