Notes regarding credits...

This course consists of 40 hours of instruction. However, students may earn 45 hours by attending supplemental sessions and completing additional coursework. Please check with your home university to find out whether you need 40 or 45 hours to earn course equivalents.

Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

High Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of five semesters (or seven quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

1. Introduction
The class will discuss the Spanish literature produced during the XIX century. The material will be divided into two focused blocks and will be looked at comparatively with respect to the same trends in other countries. The first block will be devoted to the peculiarities that the Enlightment presented in Spain and the survival of a type of Baroque literature coexistent with the Enlightened literature. The second block will be devoted to the two principle lines of nineteenth-century literature, Romantic and Realistic. With this direction it is believed that the students will obtain a dynamic view of Spanish literature, by which they can then interconnect the knowledge that they already possess and that which they can obtain in the future.
2. Program
1. Introduction to the XVIII century. Political, social, cultural, and economic aspects.
2. The Enlightened prose. Feijoo, Jovellanos.
3. The Enlightened poetry. Juan Meléndez Valdés. The Academy of Buen Gusto de Madrid.
4. The Enlightened theatre. García de la Huerta. Moratín.
5. Introduction to the XIX century. Political, social, cultural, and economic aspects. Period of the great, warlike crisis (1808-1843). The Elizabethan era and the revolution (1843-1875). The restoration epoch (1875-1902).
6. Introduction to Romanticism. French, German, and English Romanticism.
7. Romanticism in Spain.
8. Common themes in Spanish and European Romanticism.
9. Prose in the XIX century. The Romantic prose. Literary criticism in the press (Larra). Literature of manners (Mesonero, Romanos, Estébanez Calderón). historic novel (Enrique Gil y Carrasco). Doctrinal prose.
10. The Romantic theatre. Duque de Rivas, Zorrilla, Hartzenbuch.
11. The Romantic poetry. Esproceda, Bécquer y Rosalia de Castro.
12. Realism and Naturalism. Realism in poetry (Campoamor, Núñez de Arce, Gabriel y Galán). The Realist novel (Juan Valera, L. Alas Clarín, B. Pérez Galdós).
13. Modernism. The Modernism period. Ruben Darío.
14. The so-called Generation of 98. Terminological aspects. Unamuno. Azorín.
Baroja. Machado. Valle-Inclán.

3. Activities
Readings of literary works, attention and participation in class, obligatory work, practical and theoretical final exam.

4. Evaluation
Readings of literary works (20%), class participation (15%), obligatory work (20%), practical and theoretical final exam (45%).

5. Bibliography
It will be given to the students at the start of the class.