Teaching code

4S002948

Credits

9

Coordinator

Antonella Gallo

Language

Spanish

Also offered in courses:

• Spanish literature 3 of the course Bachelor's degree in Languages and literatures for publishing and digital media

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

L-LIN/05 - SPANISH LITERATURE

Courses Single

Authorized

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning objectives

The main formative aim of the teaching within the degree course on Modern Languages and Literatures 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

As required by the Regolamento Didattico of the degree course, students can sit for the exam of “Spanish Literature 3” only after passing the exams of “Spanish Language 2” and “Spanish Literature 2”. Students of Erasmus+, or other mobility programmes, who wish to attend the course are required to have a basic knowledge of Spanish history and literature.

Program

The course, taught in Spanish, aims at providing students with an introduction to the Spanish history, literature and culture of the first half of the 19th century through the reading of some canonical works of Spanish Romanticism, meant to illustrate the historical, cultural and literary specificities of the period examined. In particular, the course intends to make known the Spanish contribution to European Romanticism in an era marked by a profound artistic, philosophical and political revolution, from which the characteristics of contemporary culture originate.

The course consists of two PARTS or MODULES:

PARTE 1: PROF.SSA A. GALLO (6 CFU)
PARTE 2: PROF.SSA F. ZOPPI (3 CFU)

For those who need to obtain 9 CFU, they should refer to both modules, PART 1 and PART 2.

PART 1 PROF.SSA A. GALLO (6 CFU) borrowed from the teaching "Literatura española 3" of the course Degree in Languages and literatures for publishing and digital media [L-11]

The programme of the module taught by Prof.ssa Gallo (PART 1, 6 CFU), includes an INTRODUCTORY PART on the historical-literary background in which took shape the European Romanticism and specifically the Spanish one and a part of course more seminar where we will analyze the figure and the journalistic prose of Mariano José de Larra, exemplifying many of the historical-cultural issues of the period studied. Larra, an intellectual with a strong liberal credo, elevates the sketches of manners to a higher category as a means of meditating on life and society in general, drawing on the French and Spanish satirical tradition that preceded him. His great love for freedom, together with the pain of a Spain marked by corruption, injustice and violations, is the precious legacy he has left to all politically engaged writers disliked by power, as the playwright Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916-2000). In his work "La detonación" (1977), the existential parable of Larra, suicidal, becomes a symbol of the tragic clash between the intellectual and power at a time when the former struggles strenuously to seek and defend the truth by unmasking the hypocrisy of those who come to terms with power for interest or for the sake of quiet living.

A) Introduction
The historical period covered by the module spans from the Spanish War of Independence to the liberal revolution known as La Gloriosa and will include the following topics:
- the political relations between the Spanish Crown and Napoleonic France
-the problematic transition from Absolutism to Liberalism
-the divisions within the great Spanish liberal family
-the slow start of the "bourgeois cultural revolution"
-the birth of nation-states and nationalism in Europe

The introductory literary part will outline an essential panorama of the authors, genres, main works of the Spanish Romanticism previously illustrating the themes, ideals and principles of poetics as the centrality of subjectivism in the ethical, aesthetic and religious experience, the tension towards the Absolute, the clash between individual and society, pessimism, civic and patriotic commitment, the importance of imagination and fantasy, the exaltation of creative genius, the rediscovery of medieval past and popular traditions. To complete the historical-literary panorama, we will pay attention to a cross-theme to this, that is, the romantic image of Spain between literary myth, anti-Spanish prejudices and historical reality.

B) Primary texts:

MARIANO JOSÉ DE LARRA, Artículos varios, ed. de E. Correa Calderón, Madrid, Castalia, 1989 (o in alternativa M. J. De Larra, Artículos, ed. de Enrique Rubio, Madrid, Cátedra, 1993). Only the texts listed below:

-“Los barateros, o el desafío y la pena de muerte”
-“El casarse pronto y mal”
-“El castellano viejo”
-“Vuelva usted mañana”
-“El día de difuntos de 1836. Fígaro en el cementerio”
-“En este país”
-“El hombre-globo”
-“Jardines públicos”
-“El mundo todo es máscaras. Todo el año es Carnaval”
-“Lo que no se puede decir, no se debe decir”
-“La Nochebuena de 1836. Yo y mi criado. Delirio filosófico”

A. BUERO VALLEJO, La detonación, ed. de V. Serrano, Madrid, Cátedra, 2010 (integral reading)

C) Bibliography:

-F. B. Pedraza Jiménez-M. Rodríguez Cáceres, Las épocas de la literatura española, Barcelona, Ariel, 2002: cap. 6 (El Romanticismo).

-R. Navas Ruiz, El romanticismo español, 4ª ed. renovada, Madrid, Cátedra, 1990: cap. XI (Larra)

-F. Calvo Serraller, “La imagen romántica de España”, in “Cuadernos hispanoamericanos”, n. 332, 1978, pp. 240-260.

-M. Ruggeri Marchetti, “Sobre La detonación de Antonio Buero Vallejo”, in “Boletín AEPE”, vol. XII, n. 20, 1979, pp. 45-53.
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PART 2 PROF. F. ZOPPI (3 CFU)
The second module focuses on the figure of Don Juan within the context of Spanish Romanticism. Starting from Zorrilla’s Don Juan, the literary evolution of the Don Juan seducer motif will be studied from a comparative perspective — from the character created by Tirso de Molina at the beginning of the 17th century to its romantic reinterpretation.
The analysis will also be linked to the Don Juan-inspired character created by José de Espronceda in “El estudiante de Salamanca”, along with other relevant texts by the poet, particularly in relation to the theme of seduction and the representation of the female figure.

A) Primary texts
JOSÉ ZORRILLA, Don Juan Tenorio, ed. de Aniano Peña, Madrid, Cátedra, 2003 (integral reading)

JOSÉ DE ESPRONCEDA, El diablo mundo; El Pelayo; Poesías, ed. de Domingo Ynduráin, Madrid, Cátedra, 2013: (a selection of texts)

JOSÉ DE ESPRONCEDA, El estudiante de Salamanca, ed. de Benito Varela Jácome, Cátedra, 1994: (a selection of passages)
A selection of Espronceda’s texts will be added to the (mandatory) readings, which will be specified during the lessons and made available on Moodle.

B) Bibliography:

R. Navas Ruiz, El romanticismo español, 4ª ed. renovada, Madrid, Cátedra, 1990: capp. X (Espronceda) e XIII (Zorrilla).
J. Escobar, “Don Juan, vendaval erótico romántico, en Espronceda y Zorrilla”, in Romanticismo 9: Actas del IX Congreso (Saluzzo, 17-19 de febrero de 2005). El eros romántico, Bologna, Il Capitello del Sole, 2006, pp. 65-77 (URL: https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra/don-juan-vendaval-erotico-romantico-en-espronceda-y-zorrilla/)

V. León Varela, “El estudiante de Salamanca y el Canto a Teresa: la Sehnsucht titánica de Espronceda”, in «Revista de estudios extremeños», 59/3, 2003, pp. 1017-1033 (URL: https://www.dip-badajoz.es/cultura/ceex/reex_digital/reex_LIX/2003/T.%20LIX%20n.%203%202003%20sept.-dic/RV11450.pdf)

N.B. All the references listed in the syllabus (handbook, primary texts and critical bibliography) are available at the departmental “Walter Busch” library or at “A. Frinzi” central library. Further readings (optional) on the topics covered by the module will be indicated during the lectures.

Please be advised that the program of PART 1 and PART 2 also applies to non-attending students, who are also requested to read the critical introductions to the primary texts (see the suggested editions above). Students who are not attending lectures should contact the teachers by email for further explanations.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Lectures, with reading exercises and commentary on the scheduled texts. Attending classes is strongly recommended, although not mandatory.

TEACHING SUPPORT: All teaching materials (slides, supplementary texts, images, etc.) that will be used in class will be uploaded in the MOODLE e-learning repository by the end of the lessons and will be available for both attending students for the recovery of missing lessons and non-attending students to facilitate individual learning of course content. Non-attending students are also advised to consult the materials available on the website "Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes" (http://www.cervantesvirtual.com), see sections "Literatura/Autores/Larra/Espronceda/Zorilla.
In addition, Prof. Gallo and Prof. Zoppi will be available to clarify doubts and/or suggest further references on the topics of the course during the receiving hours (as indicated on the webpage).

Learning assessment procedures

For all students, the final exam will consist of a single oral discussion (in Spanish) on the whole program, including the required bibliography. The oral test may include commentary on passages from the primary texts, which students are required to bring with them on the day of the exam. The same evaluation method will be used for students who intend to take the course as a single course (9 or 6 CFU).

Evaluation criteria

The assessment will consider:
-the breadth and depth of knowledge acquired of the module’s topics (historical and cultural context, main writers/texts/genres of the period examined)
-the analytical skills (contextualization and critical comment of the works in the program)
-the ability to link the different topics covered by the module
-the language property and the ability to discuss clearly and consistently in a foreign language
The final mark will be expressed in thirtieths.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

For students who must achieve the 9 CFU, the final grade will be the one resulting from the average of the marks obtained in the tests relating to PART 1 and PART 2. For students who must achieve only the 6 CFU, the final grade will be that resulting from the oral exam relating to PART 1. In both cases, the assessment of the examination will meet the evaluation criteria outlined above. No mid-term examination will be carried out.

Exam language

Spagnolo/Spanish

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