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

A Stubborn Passenger of Absence. Alejandra Pizarnik: Poetic Work 

 

“Puesto que el Hades no existe,

seguramente estás allí,

último hotel, último sueño,

pasajera obstinada de la ausencia.

Sin equipajes ni papeles,

dando por óbolo un cuaderno

o un lápiz de color.

-Acéptalos, barquero: nadie pagó más caro

el ingreso a los Grandes Transparentes,

al jardín donde Alicia la esperaba.”

Julio Cortázar, poem published in the Desquicio magazine [Paris] in the fall of 1972

 

Enamorada de las palabras que crean noches pequeñas en lo increado del día y su vacío feroz...

Alejandra Pizarnik

de “Pequeños poemas en prosa” [1965]  

 

“Encuentro”

Alguien entra en el silencio y me abandona.
Ahora la soledad no está sola.
Tú hablas como la noche.
Te anuncias como la sed.

Alejandra Pizarnik

de Los trabajos y las noches [1965] 

 

Alejandra Pizarnik is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary poetical voices of the second half of the 20th century. The course proposes an in-depth examination of his work and, at the same time, the instruments of the poetic analysis.

His tormented human vicissitudes, at last, will well be opened to the reflexion on the feminine condition, too often inseparable from a desolate, desperate and inconsolable solitude.

 

Readings/Bibliography

Fonti:

Bordelois Ivonne, Correspondencia Pizarnik, Buenos Aires, 1998, Editorial Planeta;

Pizarnik, Alejandra. Poesía completa, Barcelona, Editorial Lumen, 2005;

Pizarnik, Alejandra. Prosa completa, Barcelona, Editorial Lumen, 2005;

Pizarnik, Alejandra. Diarios, Barcelona, Editorial Lumen, 2005;

Alejandra Pizarnik, La figlia dell’insonnia, a cura di C. Cinti, Milano, Crocetti editore, 2015;

 

Studi:

Aira Cesar, Alejandra Pizarnik, Rosario, Beatriz Viterbo, 2004;

Depetris Carolina, Aporética de la muerte: estudio crítico sobre Alejandra Pizarnik, Madrid, UAM Ediciones, 2004;

Negroni María, El testigo lúcido: la obra de sombra de Alejandra Pizarnik, Rosario, Beatriz Viterbo, 2003.

Piña Cristina, Alejandra Pizarnik: una biografía, Buenos Aires, Corregidor, 2005;

Piña Cristina, Poesía y experiencia del limite: leer a Alejandra Pizarnik, Buenos Aires, Botella al mar, 1999;

Rodríguez Francia Ana María, La disolución en la obra de Alejandra Pizarnik. Ensombrecimiento de la existencia y ocultamiento del ser, Buenos Aires, Corregidor, 2003;

Rocco Federica, Una stagione all’inferno. Iniziazione e identità letteraria nei diari di Alejandra Pizarnik, Udine, Soglie Americane, vol 3, 2012. 

 

The bibliography furnished above is to consider provisional. Ampler bibliographical indications - and also more selective - will be furnished during the course and after its conclusion.

Teaching methods

The course includes, in addition to classroom teaching, the study in depht, with seminar mode, of some issues related to the studied sources, as well as of the instruments, theoretical and methodological, most relevant for their study.

Assessment methods

Students must prepare an essay (thesis) of 15-20 sheets, on average, on the topics of the course. The methods of composition of this essay will be presented by the teacher when the lessons will be about to end.

The oral examination will consist of an interview that will focus on the deepening and extension of the content of the work presented.

From the way in which the student will illustrate the arguments made in his essay will evaluate the methodological and critical skills acquired; he will have to prove at the same time, to have reached an adequate knowledge of the texts and topics discussed during the course.

An essay coherently developed, well-written, not without a certain interpretative perspicacity, accompanied by an oral discussion that shows, in addition to the above skills, a sure grasp of the language and of the scientific metalanguage used will lead to an assessment of excellence; the lack of one or more of the mentioned qualities, will lead to assessments that will translate into marks very good, good, discrete or sufficient; the test shall be deemed below the pass mark when, in addition to the inadequacy, thematic and expressive, of the essay, also the interview will be equally disappointing, both from the point of view of the knowledge acquired, and from that of presentation skills.

An essay inconsistent, ill-developed, poorly or not at all relevant to the themes covered in the course, or manifestly the result of copying and pasting, will not allow to be admitted to the oral test.

Teaching tools

It will mainly be used the video projection of images and texts, prepared at the computer, with the possible use of software for textual analysis

Office hours

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