Learning objectives
- The students must possess a general knowledge of the main 20th-century Hispano-American literary and cultural manifestations and of the historical facts related to Latino-American reality.
- The students must be able to make reasoned and founded references to the authors and works which will be object of analysis during the course.
- The students must be able to understand and analyze the poetic texts in the original language, both from the stylistic/formal and the contents point of view.
- The students must be able to understand and explain the links between the artistic path of the authors treated and the geographical, historical and social context and to gather bibliographical information about the topics of the course.
- The students must be able to understand and explain the relationships among the texts belonging to the same author and among different authors and to propose original reading paths.
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
The course will start with a periodization of the Spanish American Literature of the twentieth century and will continue with a study of the different forms of landscapes that characterize Horacio Quiroga, Juan Rulfo and Julio Cortázar’s works.
Full programme
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Bibliography
Horacio Quiroga, Cuentos, Cátedra, 2005
Juan Rulfo, El Llano en llamas, Cátedra, 2016
Julio Cortázar, Las armas secretas, Cátedra, 2004
AA.VV., Storia della civiltà letteraria ispanoamericana, a cura di D. Puccini e S. Yurkievich, vol. II, pp. 117-119, 171-177, 415-442, 558-590.
Teaching methods
During the course online, the frontal lessons might be supported by slides and video and audio documents. Supplementary materials will be provided in the online course, on the LEA University platform.
Assessment methods and criteria
The test of the knowledge and the abilities already listed in the purposes of the course will be done through an oral exam in Spanish and it will be online.
Other information
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