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Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

SYLLABUS

1. An Introduction to the Spain of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. A Synthesis of Key Historical Events.
2. Eghteenth-Century Spanish Literature. The Enlightenment in Spain. Prose: Cadalso and Jovellanos. Drama: Moratín. Poetry: Meléndez Valdés.
3. Romanticism. Its European Dimension. The Term ‘Romantic’. A General Outline of the Evolution of Romanticism. Institutions, Newspapers, and Journals. Meter and Literary Theory.
4. Romanticism and its Regional Repercussions. Romantic Lyric Poetry: Espronceda. The Evolution of Romanticisn toward Symbolism. Bécquer and Rosalía de Castro.
5. Romantic Drama. General Characteristics. Audiences, the Stage, Actors, the Dramatist, Theory. El Duque de Rivas, Zorrilla.
6. Romantic Prose. The Periodical Article. Larra. The Depiction of Manners and Prose: toward Realism. Forerunners. Fernán Caballero.
7. Realism as Theory of Creativity and as Concept. The Generation of ’68. The Genre of the Novel. Emergence, Theory and Production of the Realist Novel. Galdós. Naturalism.
8. The Generation of ’98.
9. The Main Aesthetic Currents between the End of the Nineteenth and the Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries. Fin-de-Siècle Movements. Modernism and the Avant-Garde.
10. The Generation of ’27.
11. The Civil War and the Literature of Exile.
12. Post-War Literature.
13. Contemporary Tendencies: from the Post-War Period to the Present Day.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

Students will be expected to prepare at least two written assignments. Final grading will take into account assignments undertaken, regular class attendance, and the active participation in class sessions.

SET READING

• Zorrilla, José: Don Juan Tenorio (edited by Luis Fernández Cifuentes). Barcelona: Crítica, 1994.
• Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo: Rimas (edited by Russell P. Sebold). Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1991.
• Pérez Galdós, Benito: Marianela. Madrid: Cátedra.
• Machado, Antonio: Poesías Completas (edited by Manuel Alvar). Madrdid: Espasa Calpe, Colección Austral.
• Antología de los poetas del 27 (selected and introduced by José Luis Cano). Madrid: Espasa Calpe, Colección Austral.
• Sender, Ramón J.: Réquiem por un campesino español (introduced by Francisco Carrasquier). Barcelona: Ediciones Destino. Colección Clásicos Contemporáneos Comentados.