31349 - Spanish Literature 3

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Docente: Eugenio Maggi
  • Credits: 9
  • SSD: L-LIN/05
  • Language: Spanish
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students know aspects and problems of the history of literature. They know analytically the works of the different authors, are able to evaluate their literary quality and to analyze them according to precise critical methodologies. They have acquired the theoretical knowledge necessary to recognize the formal, thematic and stylistic components of literary works, and are able to link them to precise historical and cultural contexts. They are able to translate and comment with the property the contents of the works studied, from a linguistic, historical and philological point of view.

Course contents

Female identity and modernity in twentieth-century and contemporary Spanish literature.

The course will explore three crossroads of Spanish history (1920s-1930s, Postwar and Transition) through literary and theatrical texts, documentaries and films focused on female identity as a mirror of the hopes and conflicts of modernity.

Readings/Bibliography

Primary bibliography (PROVISIONAL):

Block 1:

Cipriano de Rivas Cherif, "Un sueño de la razón" (1929) (ed. De Agustín Muñoz-Alonso López, in "Teatro español de vanguardia", Castalia, 2003)

Luisa Carnés, "Tea Rooms" (1934) (reed. 2016)

Federico García Lorca, "La casa de Bernarda Alba" (1936) (ed. María Francisca Vilches de Frutos, Cátedra, 2005 and subsequent reprints)

Block 2:

Luisa Carnés, "Donde brotó el laurel: cuentos del exilio, 1940-1964" (ed. 2018)

Carmen Laforet, "Nada" (1945) (ed. De José Teruel, Cátedra, 2020)

Carmen Martín Gaite, "Entre visillos" (1958)

Block 3:

Rosa Montero, "Crónicas del desamor" (1979)

Marta Sanz, "Daniela Astor y la caja negra" (2013)

Historical reference text (mandatory):

Gómez-Ferrer Morant, Guadalupe, "Historia de las mujeres en España: siglos XIX y XX", Madrid, Arco / Libros, 2011 (chap. 5-10).

Filmography:

"Nada" (1947), dir. Edgar Neville

"Muerte de un ciclista" (1955), dir. Juan Antonio Bardem

"Calle mayor" (1956), dir. Juan Antonio Bardem

"La casa de Bernarda Alba" (1987), dir. Mario Camus

Critical Bibliography:

Throughout the course, the teacher will make available a specific selection of articles and essays through the Virtuale platform.

As manuals of consultation and general reference (not obligatory) the following are recommended:

Carmelo Adagio, Alfonso Botti, History of democratic Spain. From Franco to Zapatero, Milan, Bruno Mondadori, 2006.

Juan Pablo Fusi, Historia mínima de España, Madrid, Turner, 2012.

Jordi Gracia, Domingo Ródenas, Historia de la literatura española, vol. VII: Derrota y restitución de la modernidad: 1939-2010, Barcelona, Crítica, 2011.

R. Gubern (et al.), History of Spanish cinema, Venice, Marsilio, 1995.

Danilo Manera (coord.), Contemporary Spanish Literature, Milan-Turin, Pearson, 2020.

Teaching methods

Frontal teaching (in Spanish) with use of digital materials available online; seminar activities with active participation of students.

Assessment methods

For the oral exam (in Spanish), students will prepare in full, in addition to the lecture notes:

- all the texts of block 1;

- for block 2: the stories of Luisa Carnés uploaded to Virtuale and one of the two novels (Laforet or Martín Gaite)

- for block 3: one of the two novels (Montero or Sanz)

Teaching tools

Online teaching materials will be made available through the Virtuale platform; extensive use will be made of the projector to display summaries, concepts, text fragments, images and video sequences.

Office hours

See the website of Eugenio Maggi