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A. 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).

B. 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.

Primary Texts:
Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad (selection), 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.

B. Institutional Part:
-Professor 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, breve selezione.
-Eduardo Galeano, Las venas abiertas de América Latina, Siglo XXI, 1971,
1996 (14ª ed.), pp. 15-90.
-Eduardo Galeano, Espejos, Madrid, Méjico, Siglo XXI, 2009 (selection).

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 history of
Latin-American Literature (Fantastic and Magic Realism). In order to
acquire superior skills, student must be able to show a critical ability to
establish the relationship between a text 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 the history and the development of the Spanish
culture in the Latin-American countries.

Lectures.
Textual analysis

The oral examination 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.

A. 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).

Texts:
Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad (selection), 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 (besides the introductions of the indicated editions):
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.
Mujica Láinez
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.

B. 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.
Coursepack:
-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, by
Ignacio B. Anzoátegui, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1991 (selection).
-Eduardo Galeano, Las venas abiertas de América Latina, Siglo XXI, 1971,
1996 (14ª ed.), pp. 15-90.
-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 of Fantastic and Magic
Realism in 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.