Contemporary Literature of the Iberian Peninsula
Code
711111076
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Espanhóis, Franceses e Italianos
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Isabel Rute Araújo Branco
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To improve knowledge of the diverse literary forms which have been developed throughout the XXth century across the Iberian Peninsula.
b) To dialog with some of the most relevant texts of several contemporary Iberian literatures (excluding Portuguese literature).
c) To improve knowledge of Iberian and European historical, social, literary and artistic contexts.
d) To develop critical reading skills of their literary texts.
e) To develop skills of finding, selecting and interpreting significant information, textual and non-textual, through transdisciplinary perspectives, regarding the proposed subjects.
f) To develop skills to elaborate reflections, based on argumentation through correctly gathered and articulated information.
g) To develop speech and writing: about acquired information, critical readings and personal perspectives and
interpretations.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. An introduction to Iberian contemporary literatures: historical, political, aesthetical and literary contexts.
2. Pío Baroja and El Árbol de la ciencia: Noventayochismo.
3. Modernism.
4. Poetry of the “Generación del 27”.
5. Franco´s dictatorship. \"Tremendismo\" and existentialism: Camilo José Cela´s La família de Pascual Duarte, and Carmen Laforet´s Nada.
6. End of the century: narratives on the Civil War. Alberto Méndez´s Los girasoles ciegos. The bolstering of “national” literatures.
Bibliography
ALVAR, MAINER, NAVARRO, Breve historia de la literatura española, Madrid, Alianza, 1997.
GRACIA, Jordi, A la intemperie. Exilio y cultura en España, Barcelona, Anagrama, 2011BROWN, G. G., Historia de la literatura española, 6/1, El siglo XX, Barcelona, Ariel, 1974.
KIRKPATRICK, Susan, Mujer, modernismo y vanguardia en España (1898-1931), trad. Jacqueline Cruz, Madrid, Cátedra, 2003
RICO (ed.), Historia y crítica de la literatura española, Vol. 7: Época contemporánea: 1914- 1939: Domingo Ynduráin .Vol. 8: Época contemporánea: 1939-1980; Darío Villanueva y varios autores. Vol 9: Los nuevos nombres: 1975 -2000.
SANTOS SANZ VILLANUEVA, Historia de la literatura española, 6/2, Literatura actual, Barcelona, Crítica, 1984.
Teaching method
Classes will be both theroretical and practical in nature, interweaving information from literary history and theory with Comparative Literature methods. They stress interaction between teacher and students. Collective and individual analysis and reflection are guided by the teacher.
Evaluation method
Two written exams.