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

Intermediate

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of two semesters (or three 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.

Overview

The objective of this course is to offer a panoramic vision of Spanish literature through the study of a series of fundamental works in order to better comprehend Spanish literary history. Through the study of the texts, the course aims to familiarize the students with the concepts of periodization, dominant poetics, principal authors, etc. In this sense, the texts will be converted into basic tools of reflection and commentary, in such a way as to give light to the relationship between the literary works and the context in which they were created.

Program

I. Introduction

II. The Middle Ages
1. The ‘romancero’ and traditional oral poetry versus cultic lyricism
2. Medieval prose: Don Juan Manuel

III. The Golden Age
1. Concepts of Renaissance and Baroque
2. Golden poetry: Garcilaso a Gongora
3. Theatre in the Golden Age: characteristics of space and representation

IV. The 18th Century
1. Enlightenment and Neoclassicism in Spain and Europe
2. Neoclassic theatre

V. The 19th Century
1. Romanticism: poetry and theatre
2. The novel: realism, naturalism, spiritualism

VI. The 20th Century
1. Modernism and ‘98
2. Generation of ‘27

Readings

El sombrero de tres picos by P.A. de Alarcon
Various photocopies from the Facultad de Filologia

Evaluation

Attendance: 10%
Participation: 20%
Presentations: 20%
Final exam: 50%