According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:
1) Knowledge and understanding: students know and can identify the historical, social and cultural context, from the 16th and 17th centuries, in which the works on the program are situated;
2) Applying knowledge and understanding: students are able to identify the historical-literary framework of reference, the different literary genres to which works can be ascribed and their thematic and stylistic peculiarities;
3) Making judgements: students are able to develop a personal reflection and conduct a textual analysis of the literary texts on the program;
4) Communication skills: students can use appropriate and accurate terminology in their analysis and can express clearly their critical and interpretative thinking about the works on the program;
5) Learning skills: students are able to identify studying and learning methods and strategies in order to achieve the educational objectives outlined for the second course year.
Methodology
Marchese, A., Dizionario di retorica e stilistica, Mondadori, Milano, 1990 (the following entries: allegoria; allitterazione; amplificazione; anacoluto; anafora; analessi; attante; autore; bildungsroman; canone; captatio benevolentiae; carattere; citazione; chiasmo; cliché; comparazione; comunicazione letteraria (paragrafo 3 della voce “comunicazione”); connotazione; contesto; cultura; denotazione; descrizione; destinatario; deus ex machina; digressione; disambiguamento; discorso; dispositio; elocutio; endiadi; eroe; ex abrupto; extratestualità; fruizione; generi letterari; incipit; in medias res; intenzionalità; interpretazione; intertestualità; intratestualità; intreccio; iperbato; iperbole; ipotassi; isotopia; leitmotiv; letterarietà; letteratura; lettore; locus amoenus; macrotesto; metafora; metonìmia; mito; monologo; novella; orizzonte d’attesa; ossimoro; paratassi; paronomàsia; personaggio; polisemia; prolessi; prosa; punto di vista; retorica; ridondanza; romanzo; simbolo; similitudine; sinèddoche; sonetto; stile; straniamento; tópos; trama; voce).
History of literature
Rodríguez Cacho, L., Manual de historia de la literatura española 1. Siglos XIII al XVII, Barcelona, Castalia, ultima ed., (pp. 147-508).
Texts/excerpts
1. F. de Rojas, La Celestina, Cátedra or Real Academia Española most recent ed.
2. F. de Quevedo, El Buscón, Cátedra or Real Academia Española most recent ed.
3. Selection of significant texts/excerpts published between the 16th and the 17th centuries that will be uploaded on Studium.
Critical essays
Barrio Marcén, C., El motivo literario de «el mundo al revés» en el El Buscón de Quevedo, in «Anales. Anuario del centro de la UNED de Calatayud», 24, 2018, pp. 169-186.
http://www.calatayud.uned.es/web/actividades/revista-anales/24/3-1-Barrio.pdf
Matos, K., A vueltas con el amor y el gozo en la Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, in «Nueva revista de filología hispánica», LXIX, 2, 2021, pp. 797-822.
https://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/nrfh/article/view/3756
Núñez Rivera, V., El libro del pícaro: vida, escritura y conciencia genérica, in J. V. Núñez Rivera, R. Díaz Rosales (eds.), Vidas en papel. Escrituras biográficas en la Edad Moderna, «Etiópicas. Revista de letras renacentistas» (Anejos, 2), 2018, pp. 57-82.
https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7010757
Snow, J., Animales en Celestina, in «Celestinesca», 45, 2021, pp. 169-186.
https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/celestinesca/article/view/21433/19797
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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.