SPANISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017/2018

Type of Course:

Basic

Optional/Mandatory:

Optional

Degree:

Bachelor's Degree Programme in LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Disciplinary Sector:

Spanish Literature

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

GALINANES GALLEN Marta

Hours of classroom activity:

Prerequisites:

None. Knowledge of Spanish level B1 of CEFR is recommended.

AF code:

40X04006

Assessment Methods

Verification of learning:

Oral.

Teaching period

First semester

Objectives

The course is intended for deepening the knowledge of Spanish literature and culture through the reading and the analysing of the narrative published from 1975, F. Franco's year of death, until now, so that the student is able to understand the variety of the Spanish literary panorama and, most of all, the deep change experienced by the Spanish society in this time frame. The student will have to be able to employ the literary text analysis' main instruments and he will have to be able to put in relation different works that will be studied together with the historic and literary context.

Contents

The course considers the studying of Spanish narrative from 1975, the Dictator's year of death, until now. The democratic Transition needed a new kind of writer who couldn't be the same as the Social Realism writer nor the Experimental Novel writer. The Transition's novel will indeed be characterized by the reclaim of the theme and by the absence of a collective project. The course is intended for pointing out a series of tendencies which represent the novel of the period: detective, realist, intimate, experimental and historic novels, taking as theme the memory. The themes taken in exam will be analyzed in depth through the reading of the period's most important novels.

Recommended Bibliography

C. Ruíz Zafón, La sombra del viento, Barcelona, Planeta, 2013. [paperback]
J. Cercas, [chosse only one] Soldados de Salamina, Barcelona, Tusquets, 2007. [paperback] Or Anatomía de un instante, Barcelona, Penguin Random Mondadori, 2009 [paperback]
L. Silva, El lejano país de los estanques, Barcelona, Destino, 2003.
D. Chacón, La voz dormida, Madrid, Punto de Lectura, 2016.
F. Aramburu, Patria, Barcelona, Tusquets, 2016.
To these readings and to the material seen in the classroom, non-attending students must also prepare:
E. Ruíz Tosaus, “Motivos, símbolos y obsesiones en la narrativa de Ruíz Zafón”, in Espéculo. Revista de estudios literarios.
J. Lluch Prats, “La dimensión metaficcional en la narrativa de Javier Cercas”, Atti del XII Convegno AISPI, pp. 293-306.
J. A. Vila Sánchez, “La autoficción como dialéctica entre lo histórico y lo biográfico en la obra de Javier Cercas”, Pasavento, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. III, nº 1, pp. 123-135.
C. Servén, “La narrativa de Dulce Chacón: memoria de las perdedoras”, Arbor. Ciencia, Pensamiento, Cultura, CLXXXII, 2006, pp. 583-591.
Further information will be provided at the beginning and during the course. Further study material will be published on the moodle course page and/or made available in the copy shop.

Teaching Methods

Lectures.

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