SPANISH LITERATURE 1

1982. The labyrinths of the "movida"
The political transition in Spain after Franco's death constitutes a moment of great social and cultural importance, while establishing a rereading of the past and a proposal for future normalization. The "movida" represented a significant phenomenon, in which manifestations of the different arts are synthesized and response to aesthetic debates developed throughout the twentieth century. From his analysis a look is proposed on the previous trajectory and on the present present of Spain.
An analysis of the texts will be developed in relation to their historical, cultural and literary context, with a proposal of a methodological model that can be extended to other contexts, with the appropriate critical instruments to foster the autonomy of critical judgment.
Lessons, reading and analysis of texts will be conducted in Spanish, in order to promote immersion in the subject and language.

1. Knowledge and understanding of
- some of the main phenomena of Spanish literary and cultural history in the twentieth century, especially in its last quarter;
- literary and artistic genres in the period;
- the methods and instruments for philological and critical analysis;
- some fundamental texts in their original form and in the different genres (poetry, narrative, theater, cinema and music).
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
- of a cultural object (the literary text), its operation and its insertion in the historical and aesthetic context;
-of the texts in their original form.
3. Ability to judge for:
- autonomous learning;
- self-assessment of one's own competence for the understanding of the Spanish language and its literature;
- communicate the results of the readings and analyzes developed in an argumentative and critical way in Spanish.

Linguistic competence in Spanish and basic knowledge of European literature of the twentieth century.

1. Literature and the artist in the twentieth century
Loquillo, “Voy a ser una Rock’n’Roll star”

2. 1979-1980: The maze of the transition:
Luis Riaza, Retrato de dama con perrito
El palacio de los monos

3. 1982: An urban, youth and transitional culture
Cinema: Pedro Almodóvar, Laberinto de pasiones
Narrative: Eduardo Mendoza, El laberinto de las aceitunas
Music: Siniestro total, ¿Cuándo se come aquí?
Poetry: Luis García Montero y “la otra sentimentalidad”

4. From Spain's problem to transvanguardia: perspective from the end of a century

TEXTS
Luis Riaza, Retrato de dama con perrito, Madrid, Vox, 1980.
Luis Riaza, El desván de los machos y el sótano de las hemabras. El palacio de los monos, ed. Alberto Castilla y el autor, Madrid, Cátedra, 1978.
Pedro Almodóvar, Laberinto de pasiones
Eduardo Mendoza, El laberinto de las aceitunas, Barcelona, Seix Barral, 2010.
Siniestro total, ¿Cuándo se come aquí? https://siniestro.com/historia/disco/cuando-se-come-aqui/
Luis García Montero, Ropa de calle. Antología poética (1980-2008), ed. José Luis Morante, Madrid, Cátedra, 2011.

STUDIES
Germán Labrador Méndez, Poéticas e imaginarios de la transición española: campo, discursos, fracturas, tesis doctoral (Universidad de Salamanca, 2008), disponible en la red a través de Dialnet.
Germán Labrador Méndez, Letras arrebatadas. Poesía y química en la transición española, Madrid, Devenir, 2009.
Del franquismo a la posmodernidad. Cultura española 1975-1990, ed. José B. Monleón, Madrid, Akal, 1995.

Specific teaching materials will be available online during the course development.

The final written test will consist of the analysis of a text from the approaches developed during the course and two questions on the subject of the agenda. The first will measure the ability to interrelate the formal, content and pragmatic aspects present in the text. The questions will measure the knowledge about authors, works and / or genres.
During the course two papers related to the subject may be presented, agreed with the teacher, which will complement the evaluation.

In each of the topics and sections the teacher will make an exposition with the main lines of the approach and a practical application to a text, from which guidelines will be drawn for its application by the students. In the following session they will complete the study with a practical and active application to the previously proposed text, which will be discussed in class.

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The file "Cronograma" in Moodle (available after the first class meeting) provides the daily activities/readings of this course.

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