The course aims to provide advanced level skills in the Spanish literature of Renaissance and Baroque and to develop the knowledge with the direct experience of reading and analyzing two classics, Don Quixote of Cervantes and one in student’s choice.
It also tends to develop the consciousness on the transition from the printed book that was invented in the Renaissance to the present digital paradigm.
The course will be held in Spanish.
Parte I
La "Edad de Oro" en la literatura española: SIGLOS XVI Y XVII
1. Los conceptos de Renacimiento y Barroco
2. La originalidad de "La Celestina" en su contexto literario
3. Garcilaso la renovación de la lírica y el petrarquismo
4. La narrativa del siglo XVI: La novela de caballería La novela bizantina La novela pastoril La novela morisca
5. El "Lazarillo de Tormes" y el nacimiento del pícaro literario; Mateo Alemán y la plenitud de la novela picaresca
6. La obra de Cervantes entre dos siglos: el "Quijote" (1605-1615) y las "Novelas ejemplares"
7. Góngora y el "culteranismo". Quevedo y Lope, poetas antigongorinos
8. Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina y Calderón de la Barca en el esplendor del teatro español
Reading a classic of your choice from the following:
Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina, Cátedra
Anonimo, Lazarillo de Tormes, Venezia, Marsilio (ed. bilingue)
Luís de Góngora, Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea, Cátedra
Lope de Vega, La dama sciocca, Venezia, Marsilio (ed. bilingue)
Tirso de Molina, El burlador de Sevilla, Cátedra
Calderón de la Barca, La dama duende, Cátedra
Testi di riferimento
L. Rodríguez Cacho, Manual de historia de la literatura española. Vol. I, Siglos XIII-XVII, Castalia
José Manuel Lucía Megías, Elogio del texto digital: Claves para interpretar el nuevo paradigma Madrid 2012, Fórcola Ediciones
Parte II
A reading of Cervantes' Don Quixote.
Daniel Pennac, Come un romanzo, Feltrinelli
M. de CERVANTES, Don Quijote de la Mancha, ed. Francisco Rico, Madrid, Alfaguara, 2016
The course is structured in frontal lessons. Materials will be made available in the e-learning platform.
The teacher is available during the reception forclarifications on the contents of the course.
Non-attending students are asked to contact the teacher to agree on the program.
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| Francisco Rico | 3 Biblioteca spagnola | Einaudi | 1994 | ||
| M. de CERVANTES | Don Quijote de la Mancha, ed. Francisco Rico | Madrid, Alfaguara | 2016 | ||
| José Manuel Lucía Megías | Elogio del texto digital. Claves para interpretar el nuevo paradigma | Madrid, Fórcola | 2012 |
For attending students there will be a written test (optional, open questions and multiple-choice tests) and a final oral exam. The partial exam will cover the contents of the first part of the program, the oral exam will cover the second part of the program.
For non-attending students and for attending students who have not taken (or have not passed) the partial test, the final oral exam will be on the entire course program.
Both the partial test and the final oral exam are held in Spanish and are intended to test language property, analytical skills and the depth of the acquired knowledge.
