Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
Code
711111074
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Espanhóis, Franceses e Italianos
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Spanish
Objectives
a) Improving knowledge of the Golden Age Spanish literature.
b) Improving knowledge of Spanish and European historical, social, literary and artistic contexts.
c) Developing critical reading skills of literary texts of that period.
d) Developing skills of finding, selecting and interpreting significant information, textual and non-textual, through transdisciplinary perspectives, regarding the proposed subjects.
e) Developing skills to elaborate reflections, based on argumentation through correctly gathered and articulated information.
f) Developing speech and writing: about adquired information, critical readings and personal perspectives and interpretations.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
With the Golden Age, Spanish Literature achieved relevant international status. Ranging from the Renaissance to the Barroque, whose borders are not always clear, it has continuities, ruptures and contrasts. We begin by studying Lazarillo de Torme´s Picaresque, Juan de la Cruz´s mystical poetry, and Don Quijote. Cervante´s masterpiece is a work of intersections, barroque in several aspects, like its representation of the crisis of conscience, displayed through quixotic madness. We consider its perspectivism which later became one of modernity´s guidelines and the new role of the reader. Furthermore, we focus on the transgressive character of El burlador de Sevilla; radical doubt regarding Reality in Calderon´s La vida es sueño; love/death in Quevedo´s poetry; obscurity as stilystic ideal; grotesque construction.
Bibliography
Rico, F. (coord.) (1980). Historia y Crítica de la Literatura Española, Vol. 2, Siglos de Oro, Renacimiento. Barcelona: Crítica.
Rico, F. (coord.) (1983). Historia y Crítica de la Literatura Española, Vol. 3, Siglos de Oro, Barroco. Barcelona: Crítica.
Rico, F. (coord.) (1991). Historia y Crítica de la Literatura Española, Vol. 2/1, Siglos de Oro: Renacimiento, Primer Suplemento. Barcelona: Crítica.
Rico, F. (coord.) (1992). Historia y Crítica de la Literatura Española, Vol. 3/1, Siglos de Oro: Barroco, Primer Suplemento. Barcelona: Crítica.
Guillén, C. (1988). El primer siglo de oro, Estudios sobre géneros y modelos. Barcelona: Crítica.
Teaching method
Presentation of the various topics by the lecturer; reading and discussion of a selection of texts covering the topics outlined in the syllabus; tutorial supervision of the research work related to the final paper chosen by the student.
Evaluation method
The final paper (20%) and two written tests in class (20%, 60%).