26021 - Spanish Women's Literature

Learning outcomes

The student possesses in-depth knowledge of Spanish women's literature. He knows and is capable to use practical methodologies for the analysis and the interpretation of the literary text.

Course contents

PROVISIONAL PAGE

 

Module 1 (Prof.ssa Nider)

The course aims to rediscover the figures of  Josefa Amar y Borbón (1749-1833) and her essays on woman's rights and  of Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921) through her short stories, essays and journalistic work, with particular reference to her commitment to women's emancipation.

Module 2 (prof. Maggi)

The module will take as a case study the Spanish democratic Transition, examined here from the perspective of feminist struggles. To understand the unfinished evolution of the first post-Francoist Spain, literary, non-fiction and cinematographic materials will be examined.

Readings/Bibliography

 Modulo 1 - Emilia Pardo Bazán

Primary Bibliography:

 

Emilia Pardo Bazán, Il pizzo strappato. Racconti sulla violenza contro le donne, ed. Valentina Nider (con testo a fronte), Venezia, Marsilio, 2021.

Emilia Pardo Bazán, La mujer española y otros escritos, ed. Guadalupe Gómez-Ferrer Morant, Madrid, Cátedra, 2018.[una selezione di passi che verranno indicati su virtuale]

Emilia Pardo Bazán, La vida contemporánea / ; [edición al cuidado de Carlos Dorado] Madrid : Ayuntamiento ; Alicante : Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes 2014 http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra/la-vida-contemporanea/ History:

Gómez-Ferrer Morant, Guadalupe, Historia de las mujeres en España: siglos XIX y XX, Madrid, Arco Libros, 2011, capitoli 1-5.

Bibliografia secondaria di riferimento

Isabel Burdiel, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Madrid, Taurus-Fundación Juan March, 2019.

A) On short stories

Joyce Tolliver, Cigar Smoke and Violet Water. Gendered Discourse in the Stories of Emilia Pardo Bazán, Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, 1998.

Ángeles Quesada Novás, El amor en los cuentos de Emilia Pardo Bazán, Alicante, Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante, 2005.

B on Pardo Bazán feminist

Maryellen Bieder, Emilia Pardo Bazán y la emergencia del discurso feminista, in Breve historia feminista de la literatura española (en lengua castellana). V. La literatura escrita por mujer (Del siglo XIX a la actualidad), a cura di Iris M. Zavala, Barcelona, Anthropos, 1998, pp. 75-110;

Coral Cuadrada Majó, Ginés Puente Pérez, A debate: Entre «feminismo» anarquista y el feminismo burgués, in «Feminismo/S», 28, 2016, pp. 25-47; 

C) on Pardo Bazán journalist

Emilia Pérez Romero, El periodismo de Emilia Pardo Bazán, Vigo, Editorial Academia del Hispanismo, 2016.

Filmography

Marcela y Elisa (Isabel Coixet 2019)

El indulto (José Luis Sánchez de Heredia1960)

La condesa Rebelde (Zazá Ceballos 2011)

Non-attending students will have to prepare the primary bibliography, the history manuals and choose 2 articles from the secondary bibliography at points A and B, the book de Pérez Romero for point C and view the material uploaded on the platform.

Modulo 2

Bibliography (in the process of being updated):

Rosa Montero, Crónica del desamor (1979) (Barcelona, Debolsillo, 2015 or subsequent reprints. Available in the library)

Or:

Montserrat Roig, L'hora violeta (1980) (Spanish translation: La hora violeta, available in the library)

Esther Tusquets, El mismo mar de todos los veranos (1978) (trad. italiana di Paola Fanseco: Lo stesso mare di ogni estate, La Tartaruga, 1979, disponibile presso la Biblioteca Italiana delle Donne)

Plus chapters 7 to 10 of:

Gómez-Ferrer Morant, Guadalupe, Historia de las mujeres en España: siglos XIX y XX, Madrid, Arco Libros, 2011.

Filmography:

Fernando Colomo, Tigres de papel (1977)

José Luis Garci, Asignatura pendiente (1977)

Pedro Almodóvar, Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón (1980)

Pilar Miró, Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos (1980)

Teaching methods

The course includes, in addition to the lectures in Spanish, the seminar in-depth study of some topics relating to the sources studied, as well as the theoretical and methodological tools relevant to their study.

Assessment methods

The final exam consists of an oral test in Spanish which aims to evaluate the critical and methodological skills matured by the student, who will be invited to compare himself with the texts in the program. The student will have to demonstrate ability 1) to orient himself in Spanish cultural and literary history 2) to adequately master the contents of the program and the related bibliography, 3) to establish links between the topics of the course, 4) to be able to analyze the rhetorical and linguistic characteristics and literary works of the works examined and treated during the lessons.The ability to offer a critical synthesis of the topics addressed in class will be assessed with marks of excellence, using a specific language and demonstrating mastery in the analysis of the texts.The mostly mnemonic knowledge of the subject, the ability to synthesize and analysis not in depth and a correct but not always appropriate language will lead to discrete evaluations.Rough knowledge, superficial understanding, poor analytical skills and not always appropriate expression will correspond to just sufficient evaluations. Training gaps, inappropriate language, difficulties in orienting oneself within the contents and bibliographic materials in the program will be evaluated negatively.

Teaching tools

During the lessons, slides, video and film fragments, images of printed texts and illustrations will be projected, some of which will subsequently be deposited on the course platform. These materials made available are obviously intended as an INTEGRAL and NECESSARY (but not sufficient) part of the exam program

Office hours

See the website of Valentina Nider

See the website of Eugenio Maggi