- Docente: Marco Presotto
- Credits: 9
- SSD: L-LIN/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should know the general outline of literary history. They should be able to read, understand and translate texts from Spanish into Italian and they should also be acquainted with the methods and analytical tools they need to interpret the works of the main authors, contextualising them within their cultural and historical period.
Course contents
Spanish classical literature (from XIIIrd to XVIIth centuries).
It will be studied the main literary products in spanish language of the classical age and their development, with the following program:
1. Prose and poetry narrative: the Romancero.
2. The originality of Celestina.
3. Lyric poetry from Garcilaso to Góngora.
4. Fiction in prose: idealist narrative.
5. The Lazarillo and the picaresque model.
6. Cervantes' way of writing.
7. The Quijote and the meditation on story telling.
8. Commercial theatre.
9. Lope de Vega and his dramatic formula.
10. Calderón and La vida es sueño.
Readings/Bibliography
Reference manual:
Rodríguez Cacho, Lina, Manual de historia literaria española, 1. Siglos XIII al XVII, Madrid, Castalia Universidad, 2009.
Literary texts:
- Romancero, ed. G. di Stefano, Venezia, Marsilio,
2011.
- Lazarillo de Tormes, ed. F. Rico, Madrid, Cátedra, last ed.
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha, I, ed. J. J. Allen, Madrid, Cátedra, 2005 or another recent edition in spanish with notes.
- Vega, Lope de, Il cane dell'ortolano, ed. by F.
Antonucci and S. Arata, Napoli, Liguori, 2006 or a spanish edition
(ed. Cátedra or Castalia)
- Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, La vita è un sogno, ed. F.
Antonucci, Venezia, Marsilio, 2009 or the spanish edition, La
vida es sueño, Barcelona, Crítica.
Additional bibliography will be available on line.
Teaching methods
Traditional teaching with the use of digital texts partly available on line.
Assessment methods
Written exam on the topics of the course
Teaching tools
Dossiers and other texts will be available online at the beginning of the course.
Office hours
See the website of Marco Presotto