SPANISH LITERATURE 2 MOD. 2

As part of the curriculum of Literature and Culture of the Laurea triennale in Lingue, Civiltà e Scienze del Linguaggio. This course aims to provide students a broad understanding of the historical and cultural context and literary production in Spain of the Golden Age.

1. Knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and understanding of Spain's literary history with special attention to the Golden Age;
Knowledge and undestanding of the literary genres;
Knowledge to read, traslate and analyse critically texts in spanish languages of the Golden Age;
2. Capacity to apply knowledge and understanding
Capacity to apply the critical notions to analyse literary texts (poetry, narrative and theatre);
Capacity to read, traslate and analyse critically texts in spanish languages of the Golden Age;
3. Capacity of judgement
capacity for autonomous apprenticeship that allow students to apply new knowledge to required readings;
ability to analyse critically the literary texts;
ability to make an analysis of a literary text in italian Language.

Knowledge of the Spanish language to read critic and literary texts.

1. The concept of the "Siglo de Oro": history, meaning, coordinates
2. From Italy, with love: tradition and innovation in poetry
3. The prose of fiction: from the "picaresca" to Cervantes
4. The "Comedia Nueva": from Lope de Vega to Calderón

Letture obbligatorie
1. Antologia di testi poetici del «Siglo de Oro» [materiale didattico on-line].
2. Cervantes, Miguel de, Novelas ejemplares, ed. J. García López, Madrid, RAE, 2013 [Selezione on-line: Rinconete y Cortadillo, El casamiento engañoso, Coloquio de los perros]
3. Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, El médico de su honra, ed. A. Armendáriz Aramendía, Madrid-Frankfurt, Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2007 / ed. J. Pérez-Magallón, Madrid, Cátedra, 2012.
Letture integrative
BLANCO AGUINAGA, Carlos, «Cervantes y la picaresca: notas sobre dos tipos de realismo», Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 11.3-4, 1957, pp. 313-342.
MONTERO, Juan, «Introducción», en Antología poética de los siglos XVI y XVII, Madrid, Biblioteca Nueva, 2006, pp. 9-83.
VITSE, Marc, «Gutierre Alfonso de Solís», en Calderón 2000. Homenaje a Kurt Reichenberger en su 80 cumpleaños. Actas del Congreso Internacional, IV Centenario del nacimiento de Calderón (Universidad de Navarra, septiembre 2000), dir. I. Arellano, Kassel, Reichenberger, 2003, vol. 1, pp. 163-188 [Versión reducida: «En defensa de Gutierre», en Toledo, entre Calderón y Rojas: IV Centenario del nacimiento de don Pedro Calderón de la Barca (Toledo, 14, 15 y 16 de enero de 2000), coord. F. B. Pedraza Jimémez, R. González Cañal y J. Cano Navarro, Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2003, pp. 63-82].

2 modalities:
1. A written commentary of 5 literary texts and questions of cultural history and literature, and the literary genres.
2. An oral exam (in Italian or Spanish).

The course consists of theoretical and practical lessons (analysis of literary texts). During the lessons, the students have to participate actively preparing the texts analysis.

Teaching language: Spanish.

written and oral