Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE SPA2016

 
TITLE Spanish Literature 3 (18th C. to the present)

 
UM LEVEL 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course

 
MQF LEVEL 5

 
ECTS CREDITS 8

 
DEPARTMENT Spanish and Latin American Studies

 
DESCRIPTION En esta asignatura se estudiarán las principales etapas, movimientos, autores y obras de la literatura española de los siglos XVIII al XX. Literatura del siglo XVIII: La prosa: Cadalso. El teatro: Leandro Fernández de Moratín. Literatura del siglo XIX: La poesía romántica: Espronceda. Periodismo y escritura literaria en el XIX: Mariano José de Larra. La novela realista: Juan Valera; Galdós; Leopoldo Alas "Clarín". La literatura de fin de siglo: La Generación del 98: Unamuno; Pío Baroja. La renovación lírica: Antonio Machado. El teatro: Valle-Inclán. La generación de 1914: La poesía de Juan Ramón Jiménez. Ramón Gómez de la Serna y la vanguardia. La Generación del 27. La guerra civil y la actividad literaria. Los géneros literarios desde 1939.

This unit will study the main periods, movements, authors and works of Spanish literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Eighteenth-century literature: Prose: Cadalso. Theatre: Leandro Fernandez de Moratin. Literature of the nineteenth century: Romantic poetry: Espronceda. Journalism and literary writing in the nineteenth: Mariano José de Larra. The realist novel: Juan Valera, Galdos, Leopoldo Alas "Clarín". The fin de siecle literature: The Generation of '98: Unamuno, Pio Baroja. The renewal: Antonio Machado. Theater: Valle-Inclan. The generation of 1914: The poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez. Ramon Gomez de la Serna and the Vanguard. The Generation of '27. Civil war and literary activity. Literary genres since 1939.

Study-unit Aims:

- Familiarizar a los estudiantes con las principales etapas, movimientos, autores y obras de la literatura española de los siglos XVIII al XX.
- Acercar a los estudiantes a la lectura directa de textos literarios representativos de cada etapa, movimiento y autor.
- Proporcionar a los estudiantes los recursos y técnicas necesarios para efectuar un comentario de un texto literario del que puedan extraer las características generales estudiadas en la etapa correspondiente.

- To familiarize students with the main periods, movements, authors and works of Spanish literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.
- Engage students in the direct reading of literary texts representative of each stage, movement and author.
- Give students the resources and skills required to perform a review of a literary text from which they can extract the general features discussed in the corresponding stage.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Knowledge & Understanding:

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:
- identificar y describir las principales etapas, movimientos, autores y obras de la literatura española de los siglos XVIII al XX a través de una serie de textos representativos;
- analizar textos literarios a partir de las características que conforman cada una de las etapas literarias estudiadas;
- comparar las diferentes tendencias entre épocas y escritores a partir de ejemplos concretos de textos literarios.

- Identify and describe the main periods, movements, authors and works of Spanish literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth through a series of representative texts;
- Analyze literary texts on the basis of the characteristics of each of the literary periods studied ;
- Compare the different trends between periods and writers using concrete examples of literary texts.

2. Skills:

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:
- analizar e interpretar un texto relacionándolo con una etapa o autor determinados;
- identificar la procedencia y autoría de una determinada selección de textos literarios de la época estudiada;
- evaluar la calidad literaria de diversos ejemplos de textos literarios de la época estudiada.

- Analyze and interpret a text associated with a certain period or author;
- Identify the provenance and authorship of a specific range of literary texts of the period studied;
- Assess the literary quality of various examples of literary texts from the period studied.

Main Text/s and any supplementary readings:

- Caso González, J. M. (1983) Ilustración y Neoclasicismo (Historia y crítica de la literatura española 4). Barcelona: Crítica.
- Zavala, I M. (1982) Romanticismo y Realismo (Historia y crítica de la literatura española 5). Barcelona: Crítica.
- Zavala, I. M. (1994) Romanticismo y Realismo. Suplemento (Historia y crítica de la literatura española 5). Barcelona: Crítica.
- Mainer Baqué, J. C. (1979) Modernismo y 98 (Historia y crítica de la literatura española 6). Barcelona: Crítica.
- Mainer Baqué, J. C. (1994) Modernismo y 98. Suplemento (Historia y crítica de la literatura española 6). Barcelona: Crítica.

 
ADDITIONAL NOTES Pre-requisite: A Level Spanish or equivalent

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Assessment Due Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Classwork SEM2 No 40%
Assignment SEM2 Yes 60%

 
LECTURER/S Alessia Cilia Portelli

 

 
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