Commentary and Translation of Literary Texts in Spanish

Through a selection of texts, the course aims to provide conceptual and methodological tools to consolidate the critical-literary analysis skills.

In accordance with the Dublin descriptors, the learning objectives of the course are:

1) Knowledge and understanding: students must be able to have an in-depth knowledge of the historical, social and cultural context of the 20^th century, in which the works included in the syllabus were produced, as well as the main aesthetic trends;

2) Applying knowledge and understanding: through the knowledge of the historical-literary framework of reference and its thematic and stylistic peculiarities, students must be able to demonstrate that they have consolidated the textual analysis skills and to recognise elements of continuity or rupture in relation to the canon;

3) Making judgements: students must be able to formulate and propose interpretative hypotheses, refining the ability to elaborate personal reflections and considerations in autonomous way, as well as to conduct a critical-literary analysis of the literary texts included in the syllabus;

4) Communication skills: students must be able to use appropriate and accurate terminology in their analysis and to express clearly their critical and interpretative thinking on the works that are included in the syllabus;

5) Learning skills: students must be able to identify and implement studying and learning methods and strategies in order to achieve the educational objectives outlined for the first course year of a Master Degree.

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

Reading and critical analysis of the texts in program.

The course is exclusively taught in Spanish.

Critical history of the Spanish literature: 20^th century generations and critical revision of the historiographical category; art literature and consumer literature in times of dictatorships (from Primo de Rivera to Francisco Franco); literature of exile and regime literature (1939-1975); literature of transition and post-democracy (1975-XXI century).

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 between the 20^th and early 21^st century.

History of literature

Rodríguez Cacho, L., Manual de historia de la literatura española 2. Siglos XVIII al XX, Barcelona, Castalia, most recent ed., pp. 379-612.

 

Morelli G., Manera D., Letteratura spagnola del Novecento. Dal modernismo al postmoderno, Milano, Mondadori, 2007, pp. 193-279 (the chapter titled Narrativa spagnola contemporanea).

 

Texts/excerpts

1. C.J. Cela, La familia de Pascual Duarte, Barcelona, Editorial Debolsillo, most recent ed.

2. A. Grandes, Las edades de Lulú, Barcelona, Tusquets Editores, most recent ed.

3. C. Martín Gaite, Caperucita en Manhattan, Madrid, Ediciones Siruela, most recent ed.

4. J.J. Millás, La soledad era esto, Barcelona, Ediciones Destino o Booket, most recent ed.

5. Selection of significant texts/excerpts published between the 20^th century and the early decades of the 21^st century that will be uploaded on Studium (approximately 60 pages).

 

Critical essays

Blejer Eder D. B., De la madriguera a la libertad: intertextualidad como subversión en Caperucita en Manhattan, «ANILIJ: Anuario de Investigación en Literatura Infantil y Juvenil», 5, 2007, pp. 9-24.

https://revistas.uvigo.es/index.php/AILIJ/article/view/783/767

 

Contadini L., La soledad era esto di Juan José Millás, l’universo femminile e la metamorfosi, «Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani», vol. IX, n. 2, 2017, pp. 196-212.

https://confluenze.unibo.it/article/view/7786/7497

 

Laín Corona G., Revisión crítica de «Las edades de Lulú», de Almudena Grandes. Para una nueva interpretación como Bildungsroman, «Castilla. Estudios de Literatura», 10, 2019, pp. 126-170.

https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7116260

 

Hoyle A., La familia de Pascual Duarte: psicoanálisis de la historia, en A.D. Kossoff, R.H. Kossoff, G. Ribbans, J. Amor y Vázquez (coords.), Actas del octavo Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas, celebrado en Brown University, Providence Rhode Island, del 22 al 27 de agosto de 1983, Madrid, Ediciones Istmo, 1986, II, pp. 1-11.

https://cvc.cervantes.es/literatura/aih/pdf/08/aih_08_2_001.pdf

 

Further critical readings will be provided and uploaded on Studium (approximately 50 pages).

 

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.