Spanish literature of the Golden Ages centuries

According to the Dublin descriptors, the Course intends to pursue the following aims:

1)    Knowledge and understanding: students know and can identify the historical, social and cultural context, from the 16^th and 17^th 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.

Lectures with the help of information technology and Power-Point presentations.

Reading and critical analysis of the texts in program.

The course is mainly taught in Spanish.

Critical history of the Spanish literature: a) the variety of the Renaissance prose; b) 16^th century poetry; c) Cervantes and 17^th century prose; d) 17^th century poetic tendencies; e) theatre reform: the Baroque comedia nueva.

Works: the teacher has chosen both canonical and –according to critics– “minor” works, in order to reconstruct aesthetic, literary and socio-cultural aspects of literary production on the peninsula from the end of the 15^th century to the end of the Siglo de Oro. 

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

11. F. de Rojas, La Celestina, Cátedra most recent ed.

2. Anonym, Lazarillo de Tormes, Cátedra most recent ed.

3. Tirso de Molina, El burlador de Sevilla, Cátedra most recent ed.

4. Selection of significant texts/excerpts published between the 16^th and the 17^th centuries that will be uploaded on Studium.

 

Critical essays

Snow, J., La metamorfosis de Melibea en la Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, in «Celestinesca», 41, 2017, pp. 153-166.

https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/celestinesca/article/view/20210/17972

Ruffinatto, A., El «Lazarillo» hacia la novela moderna, in «Diablotexto Digital», 9, 2021, pp. 342-374.

https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/diablotexto/article/view/21088/18838 

Mochón Castro, M., De El burlador de Sevilla a Don Giovanni: ¿caen todas en los brazos de don Juan?, en E. I. Deffis de Calvo, J. Pérez Magallón, J. Vargas de Luna (coords.), El teatro barroco revisitado: textos, lecturas y otras mutaciones. Actas del XV Congreso de la AITENSO, Puebla, Montreal y Québec, El Colegio de Puebla, McGill University y Université Laval, 2013, pp. 537-546.

https://www.aitenso.net/teatrobarrocorevisitado.pdf

 

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.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

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