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Spanish Literature
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI "L'ORIENTALE"
Overview
Date/time interval
Syllabus
Course Objectives
EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the training course in question, the student will have to demonstrate knowledge of the history of Spanish literature of the 18th-20th centuries, Spanish and European history of the aforementioned period and oral production skills in literary subjects in Spanish.
CAPACITY TO APPLY KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
The course aims to provide students with the knowledge and methodological tools necessary for the following activities: reading, textual analysis, critical commentary in Spanish. The student must demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the issues relating to the history of Spanish literature of the period in question, be able to place authors and works in their historical-literary context and be able to carry out a critical analysis of the texts included in the programme.
FURTHER LEARNING EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Autonomy of judgement:
At the end of the course, the student must be able to deal autonomously with the understanding and criticism of a Spanish literary text from the period under study.
Communication skills:
The student, at the end of the course, must be able to express fluently in Spanish the contents of the programme in question.
Learning skills:
The knowledge of the History of Spanish Literature from the 18th century to the present day provides the student with the necessary skills to approach the 2nd level of university studies in literary subjects with a high degree of autonomy.
Course Prerequisites
PREREQUISITES
It is essential that the student has a thorough knowledge of Spanish history and literature from its origins up to and including 1600 before starting the course. Knowledge of European history and literature from the same period is also important. The student must have an intermediate level of the Spanish language in order to deal with the contents of the course.
PROPEDEUTICALITY
In order to sit the Spanish Literature III exam, students must have sat the Spanish Language I; Spanish Language II and Spanish Literature II exams.
Teaching Methods
The teaching activity includes 48 hours of lectures
Assessment Methods
The examination consists of an oral test, the evaluation is expressed in 30ths.
The examination is conducted entirely in Spanish.
During the oral interview, the knowledge acquired relating to all the topics included in the programme will be tested. The student will therefore have to demonstrate a good knowledge of Spanish Literature from the 18th to the 21st century and of the texts included in the programme, as well as the ability to place the authors and works in their historical and literary context. For this reason, a critical reading and commentary of the works in the programme is required.
Texts
Reference texts /Bibliography:
A textbook on the history of Spanish literature to be chosen from:
-J. Canavaggio (ed.), Historia de la literatura española, Barcelona, Ariel, 1994.
-Di Pinto - R. Rossi, La letteratura spagnola dal Settecento a oggi, Milano, BUR, 1999.
Critical reading of the following texts (all texts must be read in the original language):
- Leandro Fernández de Moratín, El sí de las niñas, La comedia nueva o El café, Madrid, Ed. Castalia.
-Mariano José de Larra, Un reo de muerte; Los barateros, ed. a cura di Augusto Guarino, Napoli, Ed. Colonnese, 2009.
-Benito Pérez Galdós, Tristana, Venezia, Marsilio.
-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla, Madrid, Ed. Cátedra, 2009.
-Carmen Laforet, Nada, Barcelona, Austral, 2020.
-Juan Marsé, El embrujo de Shangai, Madrid, DeBolsillo, 2011.
-Carmen Martín Gaite, Caperucita en Manhattan, Madrid, Cátedra, 2014.
Contents
The course of Letteratura Spagnola III is 8 cfu.
Spanish Literature of 18th-21st centuries.
1 The 18th century.
2 The Ilustración;
3 The prose of the 18th century;
4The Neoclasicismo; theatre, poetry and preceptistic;
5 Leandro Fernández de Moratín: El sí de las niñas;
6 The 19th century;
7 Romantic Poetry;
8 The Costumbrismo:
9 Mariano José de Larra: Un reo de muerte; Los barateros;
10 The 19th century theatre:
11 The realist and naturalist novel:
12 Benito Pérez Galdós: Tristana;
13 The Generación del 98:
14 Unamuno: Niebla;
15 The generación del 27;
16 The Spanish Civil War;
17 The years of the Franco dictatorship;
18 The fiction of the 1940s;
19 Laforet: Nada;
20 The fiction of the 1950s:
21 The fiction of the 1960s:
22 The fiction of the 1970s;
23 The return to democracy;
24 The narrators of the Transición:
25 Juan Marsé: El embrujo de Shangai;
26 Martín Gaite: Caperucita en Manhattan
Course Language
Spanish
More information
There is no distinction in the syllabus between attending and non-attending students.
During the course, the lecturer will add handouts for the examination.