Letteratura ispano-americana comparata / Litertura hispanoamericana comparada

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1) Knowledge and Understanding

The course is aimed at providing a deep knowledge of important authors of the Latin American Literature, paying attention to those relating to the “novela policiaca hispanoamericana”

2) Applying Knowledge and Understanding

Through a careful reading, students will be guided to the interpretation of the texts studied, as well as to the contextualization of the authors

3) Making Judgement

The activities carried out in the classroom will be aimed at providing learners with the tools for maturing interpretative and critical skills, on the basis of which to establish formal and semantic connections between the texts studied.

4) Communication skills

The study of the texts, which will also take into account the stylistic aspect, will contribute to the expansion of the students’ vocabulary, also in Spanish.

5) Learning skills

The course will provide students with the tools to consolidate their learning skills

The course will provide an overview of the Spanish-American detective literature, focusing on significant works by authors who have devoted themselves to the genre or who have briefly made an incursion into it.

The selected texts will be the object of a double analysis: firstly a formal one, aimed at highlighting the adhesion to or the transgression of the canon; the works will then be the subject of a thematic study aimed at detecting the semantic contents of each plot.

Novels (any edition) :

- Roberto Bolaño, Estrella distante

- Jorge Luis Borges y Adolfo Bioy Casares, Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi

- Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Máscaras

-Paco Ignacio Taibo II, No habrá final feliz

- Mario Vargas Llosa, Lituma en los Andes

 

Texts:

- AA. VV., La trama del delitto: teoria e analisi del racconto poliziesco, Renzo Cremante - Loris Rambelli eds., Parma, Pratiche Editrice, 1980, pp. 111-130, 153-163.

- Stefano Tani, The Doomed Detective, Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press, 1984, pp. 1-51.

 

Critical essays:

-          S. Costanzo,  La costruzione di un giallo sociale: “Las cuatro estaciones” di Leonardo Padura Fuentes, Messina, Lippolis, 2008, pp. 237-340.

-          Eadem, Tra realtà e immaginazione: rappresentazioni della violenza in "Lituma en los Andes" di Mario Vargas Llosa, in AA. VV., Tomo a un amigo sincero. Omaggio ad Antonio Melis dagli amici di Sicilia e Sardegna, a cura di D. A. Cusato, C. Galzio, Messina, Lippolis, 2013, pp. 53-66.

-          Eadem, Il lettore-investigatore in “Lituma en los Andes” di Mario Vargas Llosa, in AA. VV., La narrativizzazione del crimine nelle tradizioni letterarie spagnola e ispano-americana. Atti delle Giornate di Studio. Catania, 14 e 15 ottobre 2013, a cura di S. Costanzo, D. A. Cusato, Messina, Lippolis, 2013, pp. 27-39.

-          Eadem, Tempo storico e tempo mitico in “Lituma en Los Andes” di Mario Vargas Llosa, in AA. VV., Religione e potere, miti e folclore, sostrati e sincretismi. Fra antico e moderno, dal Mediterraneo al Nuovo Mondo, Atti del Seminario interdisciplinare. Catania, 13 maggio 2015, Messina, Lippolis, 2015, pp. 39-49.

-          Eadem, Sulle frontiere del mito: rielaborazioni e sincretismi in “Lituma en Los Andes” di Mario Vargas Llosa, in AA. VV., Miti, credenze e religioni in area mediterranea e ispanoamericana. Atti del X Convegno Internazionale Interdisciplinare su “Testo, metodo, elaborazione elettronica”. Catania, 21-23 aprile 2016, a cura di G. Arena e S. Costanzo, Messina, Lippolis, 2016, pp. 59-72.

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.