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Hispanic Literatures
Culture in Spanish language expresses itself in Spain and American countries’ literary and artistic production. This integrated course offers two different deepenings about the two related geografic areas, that, even if they share a common language and similar cultural influences, are also two different contexts that allow to broaden the look, traditionally european, to hybridism and to cultural richness of Latin-American countries.

Spanish Literature I A:
Spain seen by Spanish writers in XIXth and XXth centuries: among satire and hope: the long and inexorable decadence of Spain from an historical and political point of view, together with its cultural and social consequences, become object of reflection and artistic elaboration of modern writers and intellectuals starting from the Enlightenment on; The course aim is to analyse three different visions: the fierce satire of José de Larra; the avant-garde and universalistic writing of Federico García Lorca with a nihilistic point of view, and the pedagogical and positive vision of Alejandro Casona, one of the exiled writers after the Civil War. Texts must be contextualized by basic knowledge of History and History of Literature of XIXth and XXth century.

Latin-American Literatures
Course: the fantastic in literature. Through the analysis of some texts of Latin-American Literatures of the XXth century, the course aim is to study the different tendencies of the fantastic (fantastic, magic realism and mervellous).
Institutional part. The course includes also a necessary historical and cultural contextualization about the Spanish conquest of the American continent and the constitution of the Latin-American Countries and Literatures.

Spanish Literature I A:
Course: Literary texts:
-Mariano José de Larra, selezione articoli (“La sociedad”, “Vuelva ud. mañana”, “Este país”)
-Federico García Lorca, Bodas de sangre, ed. by Allen Josephs and Juan Caballero, Madrid, Cátedra.
-Alejandro Casona, La dama del alba, ed. by José R. Rodríguez Richart, Madrid, Cátedra.
Critical texts:
-E. Correa Calderón, Introduzione a Artículos varios, Madrid, Clásicos Castalia, pp. 9-128.
-Allen Josephs e Juan Caballero, «Introducción», García Lorca, Bodas de sangre.
-Francisco Ruiz Ramón, “García Lorca y su universo dramático”, “Casona”, in Historia del Teatro Español, Siglo XX, Madrid, Cátedra, pp. 173-209, 224-245.
-Zdenek, Joseph, “La mujer y la frustración en las comedias de García Lorca”, Hispania, vol. 38, n. 1, 1955, pp. 67-69.
-Doménech, Ricardo, selection from: García Lorca y la tragedia española, Madrid, Fundamentos, 2008.
-Fausta Antonucci, «Lorca e la ‘riscoperta’ della tragedia», in Il Novecento letterario, Pisa, Edizioni ETS
-Bernal Labrada, Hilda, selection from Símbolo, mito y leyenda en el teatro de Casona, Oviedo, Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 1972.
History of Literature:
-M. G. Profeti [ed.], L’età moderna della letteratura spagnola. L’Ottocento. Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 2000;
-M. G. Profeti [ed.], L’età contemporanea della letteratura spagnola. Il Novecento, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 2002;
-Valeria Scorpioni Coggiola, Tempo di silenzio e tempo di parola, Torino, Il Segnalibro, 1995, selezione
Latin-American Literatures:
Literary texts:
-Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe.
-Manuel Mujica Lainez, La hechizada, La Sirena, La escalinata de mármol, El hombrecito del azulejo, in Misteriosa Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Ed. Seix Barral, 1994, pp. 190-200, 252-260.
Critical texts:
-Abate, Sandro, “A medio siglo del realismo mágico: balance y perspectivas”, Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 1997, pp. 145- 159.
-Rosalba Campra, “Il fantastico: una isotopia della trasgressione”, Strumenti critici, XV.II, 1981, pp. 199-231.
-Antonio Risco, “La narración fantástica de lengua española”, in Actas del Congreso Internacional sobre Semiótica e Hispanismo, vol. 1, ed. Miguel Ángel Garrido Gallardo, Madrid, CSIC, 1984, pp. 423-431.
-Franklin García Sánchez, “Génesis de lo fantástico en la literatura hispánica”, in Actas del Congreso Internacional sobre Semiótica e Hispanismo, vol. 1, ed. Miguel Ángel Garrido Gallardo, Madrid, CSIC, 1984, pp. 325-331.
-Emir Rodríguez Monegal, “Los procedimientos de la narración fantástica”, in Narradores de esta América, I, Montevideo, Alfa, 1969, pp. 220-227.
-García Márquez: Lukavska, Eva, “Gabriel García Márquez: «El ciclo de Macondo» II”, Étude Romanes de Brno, XX, 1990, pp. 49-62.
-Osorio Soto, María Eugenia, “Deslizamiento entre la transgresión y la historia en Cien años de soledad”, Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, n. 37, 2015, pp. 121-136.
-Marcella Trambaioli, “La hechizada” y “El hombrecito del azulejo”: dos vetas fantásticas del universo literario porteño de Mujica Láinez, Studi di letteratura ispano-americana, 25, 1994, pp. 99-116.
-Professor's notes:
- AA.VV., Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana, I, Época colonial, Madrid, Cátedra, pp. 11-15, 36-43.
- AA.VV., Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana, III, Siglo XX, pp. 115-121 (Alicia Llarena, “Surrealismo, Lo real Maravilloso y Realismo Magico, Alejo Carpentier y Miguel Ángel Asturias”); pp. 296-298 (Gabriel García Márquez entre la literatura mítica y el Realismo Mágico).
-Cristóbal Colón, Los cuatro viajes del Almirante y su testamento, a cura di Ignacio B. Anzoátegui, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1991, selection.
-Eduardo Galeano, Espejos, Madrid, Méjico, Siglo XXI, 2009, selection.

For both courses, in order to reach a sufficient level, student must be
able to recognize the main characteristics of an
author or a text in relation to the modern history of
Spanish and Spanish-American Literature.
In order to acquire superior skills, student must be
able to show a critical ability to establish the
relationship between a text or a play and the
corresponding literary code, the ability to explain
and defend her/his own opinion in a literary
discussion, and employ an appropriate terminology.

Basic Knowledge of Spanish Literature and Theater
taking into account the european context.
Knowledge of the history of the American conquest
and of the development of Latin-american Literature
in XXth century.

Lecture and textual analysis.

The oral examination for
both courses consists in a discussion about the
themes and subjects illustrated in class. The first
question is about the general contextualization of
authors and works from an historical and literary
perspective; the following questions are about the
specific works that have been analyzed in class.
The examination takes about 20 minutes and the
number of questions isn’t quantifiable, because the
maieutic method implies a constante dialogue
between student and professor.
In order to pass the examination it’s necessary to
reach a basic level for boths aspects: the
contextualization and the specific textual analyses.
Obviously, the evaluation depends on the capacity
of illustrate, explain, analyze the general matters as
well as the single texts.

Hispanic Literatures
Culture in Spanish language expresses itself in Spain and American countries’ literary and artistic production. This integrated course offers two different deepenings about the two related geografic areas, that, even if they share a common language and similar cultural influences, are also two different contexts that allow to broaden the look, traditionally european, to hybridism and to cultural richness of Latin-American countries.

Spanish Literature I A:
Spain seen by Spanish writers in XIXth and XXth centuries: among satire and hope: the long and inexorable decadence of Spain from an historical and political point of view, together with its cultural and social consequences, become object of reflection and artistic elaboration of modern writers and intellectuals starting from the Enlightenment on; The course aim is to analyse three different visions: the fierce satire of José de Larra; the avant-garde and universalistic writing of Federico García Lorca with a nihilistic point of view, and the pedagogical and positive vision of Alejandro Casona, one of the exiled writers after the Civil War. Texts must be contextualized by basic knowledge of History and History of Literature of XIXth and XXth century.

Course: Literary texts:
-Mariano José de Larra, selezione articoli (“La sociedad”, “Vuelva ud. mañana”, “Este país”)
-Federico García Lorca, Bodas de sangre, ed. by Allen Josephs and Juan Caballero, Madrid, Cátedra.
-Alejandro Casona, La dama del alba, ed. by José R. Rodríguez Richart, Madrid, Cátedra.
Critical texts:
-E. Correa Calderón, Introduzione a Artículos varios, Madrid, Clásicos Castalia, pp. 9-128.
-Allen Josephs and Juan Caballero, «Introducción», García Lorca, Bodas de sangre.
-Francisco Ruiz Ramón, “García Lorca y su universo dramático”, “Casona”, in Historia del Teatro Español, Siglo XX, Madrid, Cátedra, pp. 173-209, 224-245.
-Zdenek, Joseph, “La mujer y la frustración en las comedias de García Lorca”, Hispania, vol. 38, n. 1, 1955, pp. 67-69.
-Doménech, Ricardo, selection from: García Lorca y la tragedia española, Madrid, Fundamentos, 2008.
-Fausta Antonucci, «Lorca e la ‘riscoperta’ della tragedia», in Il Novecento letterario, Pisa, Edizioni ETS
-Bernal Labrada, Hilda, selezione da Símbolo, mito y leyenda en el teatro de Casona, Oviedo, Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 1972.
History of Literature:
-M. G. Profeti [ed.], L’età moderna della letteratura spagnola. L’Ottocento. Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 2000;
-M. G. Profeti [ed.], L’età contemporanea della letteratura spagnola. Il Novecento, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 2002;
-Valeria Scorpioni Coggiola, Tempo di silenzio e tempo di parola, Torino, Il Segnalibro, 1995, selection

Latin-American Literatures
Course: the fantastic in literature. Through the analysis of some texts of Latin-American Literatures of the XXth century, the course aim is to study the different tendencies of the fantastic (fantastic, magic realism and mervellous).
Institutional part. The course includes also a necessary historical and cultural contextualization about the Spanish conquest of the American continent and the constitution of the Latin-American Countries and Literatures.

Literary texts:
-Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe.
-Manuel Mujica Lainez, La hechizada, La Sirena, La escalinata de mármol, El hombrecito del azulejo, in Misteriosa Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Ed. Seix Barral, 1994, pp. 190-200, 252-260.
Critical texts:
-Abate, Sandro, “A medio siglo del realismo mágico: balance y perspectivas”, Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 1997, pp. 145- 159.
-Rosalba Campra, “Il fantastico: una isotopia della trasgressione”, Strumenti critici, XV.II, 1981, pp. 199-231.
-Antonio Risco, “La narración fantástica de lengua española”, in Actas del Congreso Internacional sobre Semiótica e Hispanismo, vol. 1, ed. Miguel Ángel Garrido Gallardo, Madrid, CSIC, 1984, pp. 423-431.
-Franklin García Sánchez, “Génesis de lo fantástico en la literatura hispánica”, in Actas del Congreso Internacional sobre Semiótica e Hispanismo, vol. 1, ed. Miguel Ángel Garrido Gallardo, Madrid, CSIC, 1984, pp. 325-331.
-Emir Rodríguez Monegal, “Los procedimientos de la narración fantástica”, in Narradores de esta América, I, Montevideo, Alfa, 1969, pp. 220-227.
-García Márquez: Lukavska, Eva, “Gabriel García Márquez: «El ciclo de Macondo» II”, Étude Romanes de Brno, XX, 1990, pp. 49-62.
-Osorio Soto, María Eugenia, “Deslizamiento entre la transgresión y la historia en Cien años de soledad”, Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, n. 37, 2015, pp. 121-136.
-Marcella Trambaioli, “La hechizada” y “El hombrecito del azulejo”: dos vetas fantásticas del universo literario porteño de Mujica Láinez, Studi di letteratura ispano-americana, 25, 1994, pp. 99-116.
-Professor's notes:
- AA.VV., Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana, I, Época colonial, Madrid, Cátedra, pp. 11-15, 36-43.
- AA.VV., Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana, III, Siglo XX, pp. 115-121 (Alicia Llarena, “Surrealismo, Lo real Maravilloso y Realismo Magico, Alejo Carpentier y Miguel Ángel Asturias”); pp. 296-298 (Gabriel García Márquez entre la literatura mítica y el Realismo Mágico).
-Cristóbal Colón, Los cuatro viajes del Almirante y su testamento, a cura di Ignacio B. Anzoátegui, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1991, selection.
-Eduardo Galeano, Espejos, Madrid, Méjico, Siglo XXI, 2009, selection.

The student must show to be able to analyze and
contextualize both the texts treated in class, and the
esthetic movements in Spain and Latin-American
literatures.
The student must show as well transversal
competencies such as the ability of establish links
between an artistic movement and the concrete
literary creations of the authors that have been
treated in class, and the autonomy of judgment in
analyzing themes, motives, stilistic and esthetic
characteristics, language uses, ideological, historical
and cultural implications.