Module Details

SPANISH LITERATURE FIRST YEAR A

LE0327

Course
SPANISH LITERATURE FIRST YEAR A
Code
LE0327
Academic Year
2024/2025
Curriculum Year
2023/2024
Degree Programme
MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Curriculum
000 - CORSO GENERICO
Course coordinator
-
Credits
6
Lecture Hours
30
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
L-LIN/05 - Spanish Literature
Course Type
Single-subject learning activity
Course Delivery
OPZ - Opzionale
Year
2
Teaching period
Secondo Semestre
Campus
VERCELLI
Teaching language
Italian
Course Contents
A.Course. The feminine condition in Spain: throught both an historical excursus and the analysis of some texts by Federico García Lorca and Carmen Martín Gaite the course objective is to illustrate the life conditions and the socio-cultural difficulties of women in the Spanish traditional view, according to a gender perspective.
Reference Texts
Texts
-Federico García Lorca, La casa de Bernarda Alba, a cura di Allen Josephs y Juan Caballero, Madrid, Cátedra.
-Carmen Martín Gaite, Entre visillos,
-Carmen Martín Gaite, Usos amorosos de la posguerra española (selezione), Barcelona, Editorial Anagrama
-Carmen Martín Gaite, “Desde la ventana”, in Desde la ventana, raccolta di saggi (Madrid, Espasa)
-Carmen Martín Gaite, “La influencia de la publicidad en las mujeres”, “De madame Bovary a Marilyn Monroe”, “La enfermedad del orden”, in La búsqueda del interlocutor y otras búsquedas, Barcelona, Destinolibro.

Critical texts
-Carbayo Abengózar, Mercedes, “A manera de subversión”, Espéculo. Revista de estudios literarios, 1998.
-Carbayo Abengózar, Mercedes, “Lo raro no es solo vivir, lo raro es también hablar”, in Carmen Martín Gaite, a cura di Alicia Redondo Goicoechea, Madrid, Ediciones del Orto, 2004, pp. 19-32.
-Clavijo Corchero, Álvaro, “Entre visillos, una novela de Carmen martín Gaite que expone la realidad de las mujeres de posguerra”, in https://2023.ciiid.org/ponencia/entre-visillos-una-novela-de-carmen-martin-gaite-que-expone-la-realidad-de-las-mujeres-de-posguerra/

-Doménech, Ricardo, selezione da: García Lorca y la tragedia española, Madrid, Fundamentos, 2008.
- Profeti, Maria Grazia, recensione di Usos amorosos, in Rassegna Iberistica, 30, 1987, pp. 48-51.
-Sarmati, Elisabetta, “La tappa del ‘realismo critico’: Entre visillos”, in Desde el umbral / Sulla soglia, Roma, Carocci Editore.
-Trambaioli, Marcella, “El estatus intelectual y social de la escritora laica en el Siglo de Oro”, in El autor en el Siglo de Oro. Su estatus intelectual y social, a cura di Manfred Tietz e Marcella Trambaioli, e con la collaborazione di Gero Arnscheidt, Vigo, Editorial Academia del Hispanismo, 2011, pp. 461-481.
-Zdenek, Joseph, “La mujer y la frustración en las comedias de García Lorca”, Hispania, vol. 38, n. 1, 1955, pp. 67-69.

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

All texts are available in pdf on DIR.
Learning Outcomes
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.
They also have to apply to the texts a gender perspective.
Prerequisites
Basic Knowledge of the history of Spanish and European Literatures and
theater of the XIXth and XXth centuries
Teaching Methods
Lectures Textual analysis
Additional Information
Students with physical disabilities, Learning Disabilities or Special Education Needs can request specific services and tools via the Staff Sviluppo e Coordinamento Carriere e Servizi alle Studentesse e agli Studenti, consulting the University webpage: https://www.uniupo.it/en/services/services-students-physical-or-learning-disabilities
Students with disabilities, learning disabilities or special education needs, once they have contacted the University Staff, can refer to the tutor in charge of the course to define the examination modalities, concerning academic aspects.
Assessment Methods
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
Detailed Syllabus
A.Course. The feminine condition in Spain: throught both an historical excursus and the analysis of some texts by Federico García Lorca and Carmen Martín Gaite the course objective is to illustrate the life conditions and the socio-cultural difficulties of women in the Spanish traditional view, according to a gender perspective.
Texts
-Federico García Lorca, La casa de Bernarda Alba, a cura di Allen Josephs y Juan Caballero, Madrid, Cátedra.
-Carmen Martín Gaite, Entre visillos,
-Carmen Martín Gaite, Usos amorosos de la posguerra española (selezione), Barcelona, Editorial Anagrama
-Carmen Martín Gaite, “Desde la ventana”, in Desde la ventana, raccolta di saggi (Madrid, Espasa)
-Carmen Martín Gaite, “La influencia de la publicidad en las mujeres”, “De madame Bovary a Marilyn Monroe”, “La enfermedad del orden”, in La búsqueda del interlocutor y otras búsquedas, Barcelona, Destinolibro.

Critical texts
-Carbayo Abengózar, Mercedes, “A manera de subversión”, Espéculo. Revista de estudios literarios, 1998.
-Carbayo Abengózar, Mercedes, “Lo raro no es solo vivir, lo raro es también hablar”, in Carmen Martín Gaite, a cura di Alicia Redondo Goicoechea, Madrid, Ediciones del Orto, 2004, pp. 19-32.
-Clavijo Corchero, Álvaro, “Entre visillos, una novela de Carmen martín Gaite que expone la realidad de las mujeres de posguerra”, in https://2023.ciiid.org/ponencia/entre-visillos-una-novela-de-carmen-martin-gaite-que-expone-la-realidad-de-las-mujeres-de-posguerra/

-Doménech, Ricardo, selezione da: García Lorca y la tragedia española, Madrid, Fundamentos, 2008.
- Profeti, Maria Grazia, recensione di Usos amorosos, in Rassegna Iberistica, 30, 1987, pp. 48-51.
-Sarmati, Elisabetta, “La tappa del ‘realismo critico’: Entre visillos”, in Desde el umbral / Sulla soglia, Roma, Carocci Editore.
-Trambaioli, Marcella, “El estatus intelectual y social de la escritora laica en el Siglo de Oro”, in El autor en el Siglo de Oro. Su estatus intelectual y social, a cura di Manfred Tietz e Marcella Trambaioli, e con la collaborazione di Gero Arnscheidt, Vigo, Editorial Academia del Hispanismo, 2011, pp. 461-481.
-Zdenek, Joseph, “La mujer y la frustración en las comedias de García Lorca”, Hispania, vol. 38, n. 1, 1955, pp. 67-69.

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

All texts are available in pdf on DIR.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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.
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