29893 - Spanish Literature 1 (LM)

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • 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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