- Docente: Giovanni Gentile Marchetti
- Credits: 5
- SSD: L-LIN/06
- Language: Spanish
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Linguistics (cod. 0471)
Learning outcomes
The course proposes him the close examination of the themes of greater interest and meaning in the Hispanic-American literatures as the discussion, developed with seminarial formality, of theoretical and methodological matters inherent the faced themes.
Course contents
The birth of the fifth sun: the foundations of the Aztec
culture
The course will take charge of the study, with direct translation
of the nahuatl and comments, of one of the basic texts of the Aztec
culture: the cosmogonic myth content in the book VII of the
Universal History of the Things of New Spain, written by
Bernardino de Sahagún.
Readings/Bibliography
Bernardino de Sahagún, Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, 2 voll. (varias ediciones están al alcance del estudiante: México, Porrúa, 1956, 4 vols.; México, Porrúa, Colección "Sepan Cuantos…" nº 300, 1975, un volumen único; Madrid, Alianza, 1988, 2 vols.; Madrid, Historia 16, 1990, 2 vols.);
History and Mythology of the Aztecs. The Codex Chimalpopoca, traducido del Nahuatl por John Bierhorst, Tucson, The University of Arizona Press, 1992;
Codex Chimalpopoca, texto en nahuatl, glosario y notas gramaticales de John Bierhorst, Tucson y Londres, The University of Arizona Press, 1992;
Códice Chimalpopoca. Anales de Cuauhtitlan y Leyenda de los Soles, Introducción, traducción del nahuatl por Primo Feliciano Velázquez, México, U.N.A.M., 1975;
Mitos e historias de los antiguos nahuas, paleografía y traducciones de Rafael Tena, México, Conaculta, 2002;
-Diego Durán, Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e Islas de la tierra firme, edic. al cuidado de Ángel Ma. Garibay K., México, Porrúa, 1984;
-Germán Orduna, Fundamentos de crítica textual, ed. por Lucía Megías, José Manuel e Leonardo Funes, Madrid, Arco Libros, 2005;
The bibliography furnished above it is to consider provisional. Ampler bibliographical indications will be furnished during the course and after its conclusion.
Teaching methods
The course foresees, besides the frontal lessons, the close, seminarial examination of some themes, as of the theoretical and methodological tools, correlated to the studied sources.
Assessment methods
The students will have to compile an essay (tesina), whose formalities will be illustrated in detail to proper time. It will follow an oral test, that will serve for connecting the matters, develops in the essay, to the general themes of the course.
Teaching tools
They will be used, mainly, the video projection of images and texts, prepared to the computer, and, eventually, software for the textual analysis.
Office hours
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