SPANISH LITERATURE 2

The course is part of the Laurea Magistrale LM3: Master’s Degree programme in European, American and Postcolonial Language and Literature During the studies, Students will develop advanced skills in the history of literary language and the culture of the studied civilisations; students will acquire a strong competence in one of the languages studied. The course aims at providing a solid knowledge and understanding of the main themes of Medieval Iberic Literature. It also aims at developing the reading and analysis skills necessary to a critical understanding of literary texts, within a wider comparative approach to European Medieval literatures and cultures, as well to contemporary sources.

1) Knowledge and understanding of the key terms in the field of Philology, Textual Criticism, and Literary Criticism of Medieval texts
2) Ability to apply the above knowledge to the philological practice and to the analysis of medieval texts as part of a textual tradition
3) Assessment: ability to discuss literary texts and and choose the appropriate critical/interpretative strategies
4) Communication skills: ability to articulate adequately critical and philological analyses
5) Learning ability: ability to interact in class group-work on exercises in textual criticism; ability to consult reference texts and critical bibliography

Proficiency in the Spanish language and skills acquired during the Bachelor degree, especially in reference to the Iberistic Studies subjects

"Con tan alto poderío, amor nunca fue juntado" (Macías). Love and power in the Hispanic Middle Ages: the court, culture and poetry.

The course will provide a general introduction to Hispanic medieval literature, with special reference to linguistic and cultural plurality and to the latest critical approaches. In particular, it will focus on love poetry and prose, analysing the complex relationship between the centres of power (court, aristocratic circles, patrons etc.) and the poetic culture through the analysis of representative texts in terms of genre, themes and influence on the literature of the following centuries, from Galician-Portuguese poetry to the ‘cancionero’ poetry.

Bibliography (print or digital editions)

F. B. Pedraza Jiménez, M. Rodríguez Cáceres, Las épocas de la literatura española, Barcelona, Ariel, pp. 11-70 (edizione più recente);

Luciano Formisano, La lirica romanza nel Medioevo, Bologna, il Mulino, (edizione più recente);

Poesía de cancionero, ed. de Alvaro Alonso, Madrid, Cátedra, 1986 (o edizione più recente)

Further texts and bibliographical indications will be provided in class, and will be uploaded on the webclass

The final exam will be an oral test. Students will have to demonstrate a knowledge of the topics dealt with in class, as well as an ability to discuss them formally. Students may also write end of term papers, whose subject will be agreed on with the teacher
The course is structured in lectures, discussion of themes, critical and textual analysis, philological practice, which will be organised both as class or individual work.

The final exam will be an oral test. Students will have to demonstrate a knowledge of the topics dealt with in class, as well as an ability to discuss them formally. Students may also write end of term papers, whose subject will be agreed on with the teacher. Students will have to developing the reading and analysis skills necessary to a critical understanding of literary texts, within a wider comparative approach to European Medieval literatures and cultures, as well to contemporary sources.

he course is structured in lectures, discussion of themes, critical and textual analysis, philological practice, which will be organised both as class or individual work.

Teaching language: Spanish

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