Ateneo - UPO

Federico García Lorca: poet and dramaturgist

Suggested Bibliography:
• Manuel Zafra Jiménez (coord.), José María Ruiz Rodríguez (coord.), Lorca, un poeta para un tiempo convulso: Marco vital y legado, Granada, Diputación Provincial, 2020.
• García Lorca, Federico, Obras completas, ed. de Andrés Soria Olmedo, Madrid, Fundación José Antonio de Castro, 2019.
• Susana Ferrada, Federico García Lorca: Una obra teatral satírica, Granada, Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2019.
• Federico García Lorca, Poesía completa, Buenos Aires : Losada, 2017.

BASIC EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES:
1. KNOWLEDGE
• Knowledge of the history of Spanish literature of the 20th century, with particular regard to the evolution of poetry and theater.
• Knowledge of literary criticism on the poetic and theatrical works of García Lorca.
• Knowledge the poetic’s and dramatic’s evolution of García Lorca, and, in particular, the proposed texts, in relation to the main literary trends of the period.

Expression of judgments:
• Ability to relate literary techniques and themes with the evolution of the genre and with the socio-historical context of Spain.
• Acquisition of the main tools of poetic and theatrical analysis.
3. TRANSVERSAL SKILLS
• Ability of clear and concise presentation, with an organic vision of the concepts of the course.

HIGHER LEVEL EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES:
1. SKILLS
• Being able to analyze a narrative text highlighting its diversity with respect to the generic canon, in an evolutionary framework of the literary phenomenon.
2. TRANSVERSAL SKILLS
• Ability to express one's own vision of the text, with autonomy of judgment, in a reasoned and analytical way.

Good knowledge of Spanish literature.
Knowledge of Spanish at B2 advanced level

Lectures, seminar on text analysis. Projection of slides with texts, diagrams, graphs and images.

None

Oral examination of about twenty minutes in spanish.
At final evaluation will contribute equally to the student training on the following topics:
• Analytical reading and historical-literary framing of the proposed texts.
• Knowledge of literary criticism of the analyzed texts.
• Evaluation of the relationship between the proposed texts and the evolution of the literary’s code, also in relation to the historical-social context.
• Acquisition of a method of analyzing a text.
To achieve top marks, the student has to demonstrate excellent knowledge of the topics covered in the course, great expressive mastery, mastery of textual analysis terminology, personal content processing skills.
An exam will be evaluated as sufficient if the student reveals some lack of preparation in the topics covered, expressive difficulties, not complete mastery of literary technical language and little autonomy of judgment.
Finally, the student's exam showing large gaps in preparation, poor expressive ability, minimal knowledge of analysis techniques and no independence of criteria will be considered insufficient.

The course will offer a broad overview of Federico García Lorca's poetic and theatrical production, in its historical-literary context, to evaluate its internal evolution and innovative scope.
The module consists of 2 parts:
A. COURSE MONOGRAPHIC
B. THE INSTITUTIONAL PART.
Analytical reading of the following works:
• F. García Lorca, Romancero gitano, a cura di E. Ortega, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1999;
• F. García Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York, a cura di P. Menarini, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1993;
• F. García Lorca, Bodas de sangre, a cura di A. Josephs y J. Caballero, Madrid, Cátedra, 2005;
• F. García Lorca, Yerma, a cura di I. María Gil, Madrid, Cátedra, 2006;
• F. García Lorca, Doña Rosita la soltera o El lenguaje de las flores, a cura di L. Martínez Cuitiño, Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 2007;
• F. García Lorca, La casa de Bernarda Alba, a cura di M. F. Vilches de Frutos, Madrid, Cátedra, 2005.
(All texts can also be found online here: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/federico_garcia_lorca/).

EXPECTED RESULTS FOR BASIC PREPARATION:
1. KNOWLEDGE
• Knowledge of the evolution of Spanish poetry and theater, and of the related literary criticism, in the first half of the 20th century.
• Knowledge of the conception and development of Lorchian poetry and theater, and their relationship with the main literary trends of the period.
2. SKILLS
• Acquisition of a poetic and theatrical analysis method.
• Being able to evaluate the degree of adhesion of a given work to the code of the genre and to the literary movement in which it belongs.
3. TRANSVERSAL SKILLS
• Ability to clearly explain the topics of the course, with a good overview.

EXPECTED RESULTS FOR HIGHER PREPARATION:
1. SKILLS
• Distinction between the different poetic tendencies starting from the analysis of literary techniques.
2. TRANSVERSAL SKILLS
• Being able to present and defend one's judgment on a theoretical and practical basis.
• Being able to express the results of literary analysis with the appropriate terminology and with ideas for personal elaboration and independence of judgment.