- Docente: Luca Maramotti
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-LIN/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Modern, Post-Colonial and Comparative Literatures (cod. 0981)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to analyse e interpret the texts of
spanish picaresque novel, finding cultural and literary links with
spanish literarature of the Golden age, in order to create a
complete image of early spanish novel.
Course contents
By comparing texts and critical essays, the student will get in
touch with the spanish picaresque novel: the texts, the origins,
the historical background and the modern versions of the genre.
Readings/Bibliography
Anonimo, Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortuna y
adversidades, (recommended edition: Francisco Rico ed.); Mateo
Aleman, Guzman de Alfarache, (recommended edition: Jose
Maria Mico ed.); Francisco de Quevedo, El Buscon,
(recommended edition: Aldo Ruffinatto ed.); Miguel de Cervantes,
Novelas ejemplares, (recommended edition: Antonio Orejudo
ed.); Camilo Jose Cela, La familia de Pascual Duarte;
Antonio Rey Hazas, Deslindes de la novela picaresca, Malaga:
Universidad de Malaga, 2003; Marcel Bataillon, Picaros y
picaresca: La picara Justina, Madrid: Taurus, 1969; Alexander
Parker, Los picaros en la literatura, Madrid: Gredos, 1971;
Enrique Tierno Galvan, Sobre la novela picaresca y otros
escritos, Madrid: Tecnos, 1974; Fernando Lazaro Carreter:
Lazarillo de Tormes en la novela picaresca, Barcelona:
Ariel, 1972, pags. 195-229; Francisco Lopez de Ubeda, La picara
Justina, (recommended edition: Antonio Rey Hazas ed.); Manuel
Criado de Val (ed.), La picaresca: origens, textos y
estructuras, Madrid: Fundacion literaria, 1979, pags. 13-62;
217-230; 413-420; 437-448; 459-467; 521-525; 547-587;
Teaching methods
Texts will be read and commented during the lessons.
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Office hours
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