Ateneo - UPO

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.

Literary texts:
-Mariano José de Larra, articles' selection (“La sociedad”, “Vuelva ud. mañana”, “Este país”)
-Federico García Lorca, Bodas de sangre, ed. Allen Josephs and Juan Caballero, Madrid, Cátedra.
-Alejandro Casona, La dama del alba, ed. José R. Rodríguez Richart, Madrid, Cátedra.

Critical texts (besides the introductions of the indicated editions):
-E. Correa Calderón, in 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, selezione da Símbolo, mito y leyenda en el teatro de Casona, Oviedo, Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 1972.

B. History of Literature
Students have to show knowledge of the corresponding literary periods:
XIXth and XXth centuries
-Students have to consult the selected material of the following
courspack:
M. G. Profeti [by], L’età moderna della letteratura spagnola. L’Ottocento.
Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 2000; M. G. Profeti [a cura di], 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

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 Spanish Literature and theater of the XIXth and XXth centuries. 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 the history of Spanish and European Literatures and theater of the XIXth and XXth centuries

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.

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 cours i mis 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.
Literary texts:
-Mariano José de Larra, articles' selection (“La sociedad”, “Vuelva ud. mañana”, “Este país”)
-Federico García Lorca, Bodas de sangre, ed. Allen Josephs and Juan Caballero, Madrid, Cátedra.
-Alejandro Casona, La dama del alba, ed. José R. Rodríguez Richart, Madrid, Cátedra.

Critical texts (besides the introductions of the indicated editions):
-E. Correa Calderón, in 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, selezione da Símbolo, mito y leyenda en el teatro de Casona, Oviedo, Instituto de Estudios Asturianos, 1972.

Texts must be contextualized by basic knowledge of History and History
of Literature of XIXth and XXth century.
-Students have to consult the selected material of the following
courspack:
M. G. Profeti [by], L’età moderna della letteratura spagnola. L’Ottocento.
Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 2000; M. G. Profeti [a cura di], 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

The student must show to be able to analyze and contextualize both the texts treated in class, and the esthetic movements of Spain and Europe at the end of XIXth century and the beginning of XXth century. 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.