Ateneo - UPO

Hispanic Literatures Culture in Spanish language expresses itself in Spain and American countries’ literary and artistic production. This integrated course offers two different deepenings about the two related geografic areas, that, even if they share a common language and similar cultural influences, are also two different contexts that allow to broaden the look, traditionally european, to hybridism and to cultural richness of Latin-American countries.

Spanish Literature I 

"The course is of an institutional nature and aims to trace the main stages of Spanish literature from its origins to the early twentieth century, focusing on the most important movements, aesthetics, and authors, taking into account the historical context."

Latin-American Literatures

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 LatinAmerican Countries and Literatures.

Spanish Literature I

["it is the new ricercatore's job]

Latin-American Literatures

Primary texts: Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad, 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. 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.

Institutional part: 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, 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 modern history of Spanish and Spanish-American Literature.

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.

Spanish Literature I

Basic Knowledge of the history of European Literatures 

Latin-American Literature

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

For both courses: lectures; for Latin-American Literatures also textual analysis

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Spanish Literatures

["It is the new ricercatore task]

Latin-American Literature

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. 

Spanish Literature I

[it's the new ricercatore responsability]

Latin-American Literatures

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 LatinAmerican Countries and Literatures. 

Primary texts: Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad, 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. 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.

Institutional part: 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, Espejos, Madrid, Méjico, Siglo XXI, 2009 (selection).

Spanish Literature I

[It is the new teacher's responsibility]

Latin-American Literatures

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.