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.