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
This class will discuss the Spanish literature produced during the XX century. The material will be divided into three 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 literature at the end of the XIX century and beginning of the XX century. The second block will contain the Vanguard literature up to the civil war. The students will study the Spanish literature from the postwar period until the present. 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
I. The beginnings of the Literary Modernity.
1. Crisis at the end of the century and new literature: General layout.
2. Crisis at the end of the century and new poetry: from Antonio Machado to Juan Ramón Jiménez.
3. Crisis at the end of the century and the new novel: from Unamuno y Azorín to Pí Baroja.
4. Crisis at the end of the century and the new theatre: Valle-Inclán.

II. Modernity and Literary Vanguards
1. The period between wars and typology of the avant-garde modernity.
2. The Essayist Modernity: Ortega y Gasset.
3. The Poetic Modernity: the poets of 27.
4. Modernity in prose and the novel: from Gabriel Miró to Ramón Gómez de la Serna.
5. Modernity in the theatre: the theatre of Federico García Lorca.

III. Social crisis and Modernity in crisis
1. The literature between purity and revolution.
2. The literature during the civil war.

IV. The postwar years and the humanizing process of literature
1. Postwar and literature: the triumphant literature. The literature of internal
exile. The literature of exile: Francisco Ayala.
2. From Existentialism to Social realism in poetry: from Dámaso Alonso to
Gabriel Celaya, Blas de Otero and José Hierro. The poets of the mid-century.
3. From Existentialism to Social realism in the novel: from Camilo José Cela and
Miguel Delibes to the novelists of the mid-century.
4. From Existentialism to Social realism in the theatre: from Buero Vallejo to
Alfonso Sastre.

V. The Real Spain as opposed to the Official Spain and literary renovation and
experimentation
1. Renovation and experimentation in poetry: experimental, culturalist, and
intimist tendencies: from the latest to Antonio Carvajal.
2. Renovation and experimentation in the novel: from Luis Martín Santos and
Juan Bennet to Juan Goytisolo.
3. Renovation and experimentation in the theatre: from Fernando Arrabal and
Francisco Nieva to the groups of the Independent Theatre.

VI. Tendencies of the literature in modern Spain
1. Tendencies of modern poetry: from Aesthetic Intimism to the poetry of
experience.
2. Tendencies of the modern novel: from verbal alchemy to the open
recuperation of the novel.
3. Tendencies of the modern theatre: from the Realist theatre to the
Neoesperpértico teatro; the festive and spectacular experimentation of Els Comediante and La Fura dels Baus.

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 works (20%), practical and theoretical final exam (45%).

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