SPANISH LITERATURE II
LETTERATURA SPAGNOLA II
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| 2019/2020 | 8 |
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| Matteo Mancinelli |
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Course entirely taught in a foreign language
Spanish
This course is entirely taught in a foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The course aims at making students familiar with Spanish culture and literature from its origins to Barroque. Moreover, it will provide students with a set of methodological competences and a specific terminology, both needed to analyze and comment literary texts.
Program
The course proposes the study of Spanish culture and literature from its origins to Barroque. The main focus will be set on Spanish prose from the Middle Age to the 17th century and, particularly, on barroque short novel.
Detail programme:
- Introduction to the historical and literary background;
- Spanish prose from the Middle Age to the 17th century;
- The Spanish novela corta: definition, sources, models and development;
- Miguel de Cervantes' Novelas ejemplares (1613): El licenciado Vidriera;
- Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo's Corrección de vicios (1615): La niña de los embustes;
- Lope de Vega's Novelas a Marcia Leonarda (1621-1624): La desdicha por la honra;
- José Camerino's Novelas amorosas (1624): La ingratitud hasta la muerte;
- Juan Pérez de Montalbán's Sucesos y prodigios de amor (1625): La prodigiosa;
- Alonso de Castillo Solórzano's Jornadas alegres (1626): La cruel aragonesa;
- María de Zayas' Novelas ejemplares y amorosas (1637): La fuerza del amor.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Lectures with student participation.
- Course books
History of Literature (mandatory):
- Felipe B. Pedraza Jiménez, Milagros Rodríguez Cáceres, Las épocas de la literatura española, Barcelona: Ariel, 2012, pp. 9-161.
Literary texts in anthology (mandatory):
- El licenciado Vidriera, in Miguel de Cervantes, Novelas ejemplares II, Juan Bautista Avalle-Arce (ed.), Madrid: Castalia, 1986, pp. 101-144.
- La niña de los embustes, in Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo, Corrección de vicios, David González Ramírez and Manuel Piqueras Flores (eds.), Madrid: SIAL / Prosa Barroca, 2019, pp. 283-296.
- La desdicha por la honra, in Lope de Vega, Novelas a Marcia Leonarda, ed. di Marco Presotto, Madrid: Castalia, 2007, pp. 105-149.
- La ingratitud hasta la muerte, in Rafael Bonilla Cerezo (ed.), Novelas cortas del siglo XVII, Madrid: Cátedra, 2010, pp. 181-200.
- La prodigiosa, in Rafael Bonilla Cerezo (ed.), Novelas cortas del siglo XVII, Madrid: Cátedra, 2010, pp. 201-244.
- La cruel aragonesa, in Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, Jornadas alegres, Julia Barella and Mita Valvassori (eds.), Madrid: SIAL / Prosa Barroca, 2019, pp. 127-159.
- La fuerza del amor, in María de Zayas y Sotomayor, Novelas amorosas y ejemplares, Julián Olivares (ed.), Madrid: Cátedra, 2000, pp. 343-371.
More readings will be given during the course.
Suggested critical bibliography (mandatory for non attending students):
- Isabel Colón Calderón, La novela corta en el siglo XVII, Madrid: Laberinto, 2001.
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