SPANISH LITERATURE 1

The course confers an specific profile for the students choosing Spanish language and literature at grade "Lingue, civil e science del linguaggio", class 11 (Lingue e culture moderne) and for all three offered directions (letterario culturale, linguistico-filologico-glottodidattico, politico-internationale). The course can also be inserted into different study programs as "free choice credits" or as additional-supplementary matter. Its aim is proposing a panoramic approach to XX century Spanish literature (from 1898 until the new millennium) organized around some historical and cultural highlights of special significance from the literary perspective. Moreover, the course will provide the students with basic critical and mythological tools for increasing comprehension skills and autonomy of judgement.

Knowledge and understanding of
- some main events of the Spanish literary history of the XX century.
- artistic and literary genres;
- methodology of analysis of the cultural object (literary, visual, and performative)
- some fundamental texts in their original form and genre (poetry, narrative, theatre, cinema)
2.Ability to apply knowledge and understanding of:
- a cultural object (literary text) its function and insertion in its historical and aesthetically context;
- to apply analytical methodologies to the understanding of the society and culture producing the object under scrutiny;
- to analyze and commenting a literary text with scientific methodology and appropriate language.
3.Ability to judge for:
- autonomous learning
- self-evaluation of the own skills for the understanding of the Spanish language and literature
- communicating the results of readings and analysis in argumentative and critical way in Italian and Spanish.

No prerequisite is mandatory, but a fair knowledge of the Spanish language will facilitate the reading of texts.

The course program will develop starting from the most significant moments articulating Spanish literature during the 20th century. Attention will be paid to the historical, socio-economic, political and cultural circumstances in which the different groups, movements, trends and literary phenomena characterizing the period from the "Desastre of '98" to the beginning of the new millennium arise and develop. Paying special attention to the watershed constituted by the Civil War, the analysis of some texts will be proposed (a selection of poems, some short stories and novels) with which it will be possible to follow the Spanish literary debate of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Macro-themes:
1. '98 and the turn of the century.
2. Avantgarde and generation of 1927.
3. The civil war: language and propaganda.
4. From postwar period to Transition.
5. Contemporary Spain: between history and memory.

Required reading:
- Anthology of texts provided by the teacher during the course.
- Choice of short stories from:
"A sangre y fuego" by Manuel Chavez Nogales. Introduction by María Isabel Cintas. Libros del Asteroide (2011).
"Racconti del dispatrio" by Vicente Soto. Introduction by Alessandro Mistrorigo. Sinopia (2022).
"Partes de guerra" ed. di Ignacio Martínez de Pisón. Catedral (2022).
- Novels:
"Luna de lobos" (1985) by Julio Llamazares. Ed. by Miguel Tomás-Valiente, Cáterda, Letras Hispánicas (2009).
"Soldados de Salamina" (2001) by Javier Cercas. Ed. by Domingo Ródenas de Moya, Cátedra, Letras Hispánicas (2017).

Texts for the study:
- Alvar Carlos, José-Carlos Mainer, Rosa Navarro, Storia della letteratura spagnola, vol. II, L'età contemporanea, Torino, Einaudi, 1997 (pp. 469-579).
- AA.VV., Letteratura spagnola contemporanea, Torino, Pearson, 2020.
- Julián Casanova, Carlos Gil Andrés, Breve historia de España en el siglo XX, Barcelona, Ariel, 2012.
- Gabriele Ranzato, La Guerra Di Spagna, Milano, Giunti, 1995.
- Cesare Segre, Avviamento all’analisi del testo letterario, Torino, Einaudi, 1985 (pp. 5-131).

Critical bibliography for further reading:
- Francisco Rico (coord.), Historia crítica de la Literatura Española, 9 vols. y sus suplementos, Barcelona: Ariel, 1980-2000. (tomos 6-9).
- Gabriele Morelli, Danilo Manera, Letteratura spagnola del Novecento. Dal modernismo al postmoderno, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2007 (pp. 1-279).
- Jordi Gracia, Domingo Ródenas, Historia de la literatura española. 7. Derrota y restitución de la modernidad 1939-2010, Barcelona, Crítica, 2011.
- José Carlos Mainer (coord.), Historia de la literatura española, 6. Modernidad y nacionalismo 1900-1939, Barcelona, Crítica, 2010.
- Maria Grazia Profeti (a cura di), L’età contemporanea della letteratura spagnola. Il Novecento, Milano, La Nuova Italia, 2001.

Specific didactic materials will be at hand during the course.

Oral test: the exam is made up of three questions (general topic to be developed, commentary on a text and brief definition of concepts). The approximate duration of the test will be approximately 20 minutes. The student's active participation in lessons is appreciated.

The course will combine theoretical and practical lessons: in addition to the classes, students have to prepare the mandatory readings in order to discuss critically on them. Texts and other material will be uploaded in Moodle.

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