ISPANIC-AMERICAN LITERATURES
Oral exam
From a general point of view, the course will enable students to deepen their knowledge of the literary history of Spain and Latin America, and to take control of the essential tools literary analysis and comparative reading of the texts.
The course is divided into two modules. In the first module, the aim is to guide students to the knowledge of the issues, genres and major authors of the Spanish literary history from the late fifteenth to the seventeenth century and deepen the knowledge of this history through literary analysis of the three major works of the literary period subject of studies: La Celestina, Lazarillo de Tormes and Don Quijote de la Mancha. In the second part, we will analyze the persistence of the figures of the protagonists of the analyzed works, and in particular the figure of Don Quixote, the Spanish-American contemporary literature sattraverso the analysis of some novels that have taken these characters and have revitalized them and risemantizzati in order to highlight some major themes of the continent.
The course is divided into two modules. In the first module, the aim is to guide students to the knowledge of the issues, genres and major authors of the Spanish literary history from the late fifteenth to the seventeenth century and deepen the knowledge of this history through literary analysis of the three major works of the literary period subject of studies: La Celestina, Lazarillo de Tormes and Don Quijote de la Mancha. In the second part, we will analyze the persistence of the figures of the protagonists of the analyzed works, and in particular the figure of Don Quixote, the Spanish-American contemporary literature sattraverso the analysis of some novels that have taken these characters and have revitalized them and risemantizzati in order to highlight some major themes of the continent.
MOD. 1
FERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ Iván, Letteratura Ispano-americana, Milano, Alpha test, 2003.
MOD. II
PRIMARY SOURCES
RULFO Juan, Pedro Páramo (1955) (any edition in Spanish or Italian).
GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ Gabriel, Cien años de soledad, 1967 (any edition in Spanish or Italian).
VARGAS LLOSA Mario, La guerra del fin del mundo, 1981 (any edition in Spanish or Italian).
VARGAS LLOSA Mario, Historia de Mayta, 1984 (any edition in Spanish or Italian).
SECONDARY SOURCES
LUCHE Laura, Splendore e miseria della finzione. Historia de Mayta di Mario Vargas Llosa, Messina, Andrea Lippolis Editore, 2003.
Essays collected in a file that will be available at the beginning of the course.
Students who can not attend classes in addition to the texts provided for attending students will have to prepare the following texts:
Alejo Carpentier, El reino de este mundo/Il regno di questo mondo (1949)(any edition in Spanish or Italian).
Roberto Bolaño, Estrella distante/Stella distante (1996), (any edition in Spanish or Italian).
Frontal lectures
It is strongly recommended frequency for the course and the exam will be based primarily on the analysis of texts made in class