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Learning outcomes

The course will be divided into two parts. The first one will focus on the most important aspects and texts of the Contemporary Spanish Literature, with the help of critic tools. The second one will focus on civil commitment in Contemporary Spanish Theatre.

Program

(The program applies also to non-attending students)
Part 1 «Storia e testi della letteratura spagnola del Novecento» (6 crediti)

Recommended textbook:
F. Antonucci, Il Novecento letterario spagnolo: percorsi, Pisa, ETS, 2004.

Other textbooks:
-G. Morelli-D. Manera, Letteratura spagnola del Novecento. Dal modernismo al postmoderno, Milano, Bruno Mondatori, 2007.
- M.G. Profeti, a cura di, L'età contemporanea della letteratura spagnola: il Novecento, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 2001.

Texts:
R. del Valle Inclán, Luces de bohemia, ed. Alonso Zamora Vicente, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe.
F. García Lorca, Romancero gitano, ed. Christian de Paepe, Austral Poesia, Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 2007
F. García Lorca, La casa de Bernarda Alba, Madrid, Cátedra.
R. Alberti, Sobre los ángeles, Madrid, Cátedra.
Max Aub, La verdadera historia de la muerte de Francisco Franco; Manuscrito cuervo.(Copy of these two texts will be given during the course).

The texts must be read in Spanish Language.

Bibliography:
F. García de Cortázar-J.M. González Vesga, Storia della Spagna, Milano, Bompiani, 1999, pp. 416-508.
V. Bodini, I poeti surrealisti spagnoli (introduzione), Torino, Einaudi, 1988.
P. Salinas, Literatura española. Siglo XX, Madrid, Alianza, 2001.

Examination Methods

Oral exam in Italian, or, optionally in Spanish. During the examination students should prove the comprehension of Spanish texts (reading and translation). At the end of the first part of the course there will be an optionally written test for attending students.