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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 course, the student should demonstrate a good awareness of the literary representation of the autobiographical genre and its evolution during the 18th, 19th, and 20th XXI centuries, with particular focus on the relationship between autobiography and autoficción.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
The student must demonstrate knowledge and understanding of issues related to the representation of the theme chosen for the course through the specific literary languages of the various eras and poetics. From the notions learned, also inspired by historiographic, sociological, anthropological and psychoanalytic readings regarding the evolution of yo writing through the chosen centuries, the student should demonstrate the ability to elaborate discussions in Castilian language, even complex ones, on the theme.
Expected Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, the student should demonstrate a good awareness of the literary representation of the autobiographical genre and its evolution during the 18th, 19th, and 20th XXI centuries, with particular focus on the relationship between autobiography and autoficción.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
The student must demonstrate knowledge and understanding of issues related to the representation of the theme chosen for the course through the specific literary languages of the various eras and poetics. From the notions learned, also inspired by historiographic, sociological, anthropological and psychoanalytic readings regarding the evolution of yo writing through the chosen centuries, the student should demonstrate the ability to elaborate discussions in Castilian language, even complex ones, on the theme.
Communication Skills:
Students should know how to effectively process, including in Spanish, cultural-historical information, ideas derived from the debate contemporary to the events, as well as issues in light of later elaborations.
Learning skills:
Students should develop literary text-reading skills, with commentary and translation of the works in the program and with the ability to contextualize phenomena, works and authors within the context of Spanish literature, history and culture.
Course Prerequisites
Students should have a good knowledge of Spanish History and Spanish Literature from its origins to the present day.
Teaching Methods
Lectures, entirely in Spanish, with the aid of iconographic materials and audiovisual tools, including reading, translation, commentary, interpretation of the texts in the program
Assessment Methods
Verification of the student's preparation through an oral examination entirely in Spanish.
Texts
Critical Bibliography:
- Pozuelo Yvancos, José María, De la Autobiografía: teoría y estilos, Barcelona, Ed. Crítica, 2006.
- Alberca, Manuel, El pacto ambiguo. De la autobiografía a la autoficción, Madrid, Ed. Biblioteca Nueva, 2007.
Literary Testsi:
- Torres Villarroel, Diego, Vida, Madrid, Cátedra, 1980.
- Pérez Galdós, Benito, Memorias de un desmemoriado, Sevilla, Ed. Renacimiento, 2020.
- Millás, Juan José, El mundo, Madrid, Planeta, 2007.
- Sanz, Marta, La lección de anatomía, Barcelona, Anagrama Ed., 2016.
- Morales, Cristina, Últimas tardes con Teresa de Jesús, Barcelona, Anagrama, 2020.
- Portero, Alana S., La mala costumbre, Barcelona, Seix-Barral, 2023.
Contents
The course of Letteratura Spagnola II is 8 cfu.
This course is devoted to autobiographical fiction of the 17th, 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
It will consider theories on the ambiguous nature of autobiography, always in dialectic tenzone with autoficción, theories that have been realized in recent decades since Philippe Lejeune's essay, Le Pacte autobiographique (1970), which set the terms of the pact between writer and reader.
After that, selected texts by authors very distant from each other, both chronologically and in poetic conception, will be analyzed in order to highlight the development of the autobiographical genre over the centuries concerned, identifying the ways in which autobiography and autoficción intersect.
Theoretical study on the autobiographical genre and its implications for autofiction:
- De la Autobiografía: teoría y estilos, de José María Pozuelo Yvancos.Barcelona.
- El pacto ambiguo. De la autobiografía a la autoficción, di Manuel Alberca. Madrid,
Critical reading following literary works:
Autobiografia del XVIII secolo:
Vida di Diego Torres de Villarroel,
Autobiografia del XIX secolo:
Memorias de un desmemoriado di Benito Pérez Galdós.
Autobiografie del XXI secolo: , Sevilla, Ed. Renacimiento, 2020.
El Mundo di Juan José Millás.
La lección de anatomía di Marta Sanz.
Últimas tardes con Teresa de Jesús di Cristina Morales.
La mala costumbre di Alana S. Portero.
Course Language
Spanish
More information
During the course, material will be added to the programme in handouts produced by the Professor.