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Corso: Mexican Culture and Literature: The course aim is to analyze some masterpieces of Mexican culture and Literature from the conquest to the XXIth century. The course includes also historical and literary contextualization about the Spanish Conquest of America and the formation of Latin-American countries and related Literatures

Primary texts:
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España; Laura Esquivel, Malinche; Octavio Paz, El laberinto de la soledad (selezione); Juan Rulfo, Pedro Paramo.
Secondary texts: - coursepack on ; secondary texts: - AA.VV., Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana, I, Época colonial, Madrid, Cátedra, pp. 127-134 (Bernal Díaz del Castillo); 135-143 (El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega); 275-291 (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz). -Valbuena Briones, Antonio, «Épica e historia», Archivum: Revista de la Facultad de Filología, 8, 1958, pp. 83-110. -García Única, Juan, «Modernidad de la Historia Verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España de Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Refutación y afirmación», Revista de Literatura, vol. XXX, n. 159, , pp. 89-118. -Fernando de Toro, “El laberinto de la soledad” y la forma del ensayo” -Octavio Paz, Claude Fell, Entretien: “Vuelta a El laberinto de la soledad”, en Cahiers du monde hispanique et luso-brésilien, n. 25, 1975, pp. 171-189. -Malinche, Reseñas. Rodrigo Baudagna, “El pensar mítico como crítica social en Pedro Páramo”, Sincronía, n. 73, 2018, on-line; Victoria Gómez Peláez, “Los estragos y límites del poder: un análisis de Pedro Páramo de Juan Rulfo...”, Trabajo de grado, Universidad de Antioquía, 2021; Diógenes Fajardo Valenzuela, “Pedro Páramo o la inmortalidad del espacio”, Thesaurus, XLIV, n. 1, 1989, pp. 92-111.

Knowledge of some authors and texts of the beginning of Latin-American Literatures (Conquest narrative and Baroque theater), and two mexican
novels. Knowledge of the development of the Latin-American Literatures. Acquisition of the critical ability to establish the relationship between a
text and the corresponding literary code.

Basic knowledge of the history and the development of the Spanish culture in the Latin-American countries

Lectures. Textual analysis

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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 prerequirement for the examination for students of the Master is a short paper written in Spanish language about a subject chosen by the student her/himself; this will constitute the starting point of the oral examination.

Mexican Culture and Literature: The course aim is to analyze some masterpieces of Mexican culture and Literature from the conquest to the XXIth century.
The course includes also historical and literary contextualization about the Spanish Conquest of America and the formation of Latin-American countries and related Literatures.
Primary texts: Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España. Laura Esquivel, Malinche. Octavio Paz, El laberinto de la soledad (selezione). Juan Rulfo, Pedro Paramo.
Secondary texts:
- professor's notes (pdf su DIR)- AA.VV., Historia de la Literatura Hispanoamericana, I, Época colonial, Madrid, Cátedra, pp. 127-134 (Bernal Díaz del Castillo); 135-143 (El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega); 275-291 (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz). -Valbuena Briones, Antonio, «Épica e historia», Archivum: Revista de la Facultad de Filología, 8, 1958, pp. 83-110.-García Única, Juan, «Modernidad de la Historia Verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España de Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Refutación y afirmación», Revista de Literatura, vol. LXXX, n. 159, , pp. 89-118. -Fernando de Toro, “El laberinto de la soledad” y la forma del ensayo” -Octavio Paz, Claude Fell, Entretien: “Vuelta a El laberinto de la soledad”, en Cahiers du monde hispanique et luso-brésilien, n. 25, 1975, pp. 171-189.
-Malinche, Reseñas. Rodrigo Baudagna, “El pensar mítico como crítica social en Pedro Páramo”, Sincronía, n. 73, 2018, on-line; Victoria Gómez Peláez, “Los estragos y límites del poder: un análisis de Pedro Páramo de Juan Rulfo...”, Trabajo de grado, Universidad de Antioquía, 2021; Diógenes Fajardo Valenzuela, “Pedro Páramo o la inmortalidad del espacio”, Thesaurus, XLIV, n. 1, 1989, pp. 92-111.

In order to achieve the basic knowledge and the skills required for the corresponding level, the student has to show: -knowledge of the authors, texts and literary features of the XVIIth and XXth centuries in Mexico -ability to analyse similar texts, besides the ones studied in class