Modern foreign languages and civilisations

Professor: Giorgia DELVECCHIO
Academic discipline: Lingua e letterature ispano-americane (L-LIN/06)
Field: A scelta dello studente
Type of training activity: Student's choice

30 hours
of face-to-face activities

6 credits

hub: PARMA

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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

Knowledge of Spanish language.

Course unit content

The course will start with a periodization of the Spanish American Literature of the twentieth century and it will go on by focusing on some contemporary writers' works.

Full programme

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Bibliography

José Miguel Oviedo, Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana, Alianza, Madrid, 2012.
2. AA.VV., Storia della civiltà letteraria ispanoamericana, a cura di D. Puccini e S. Yurkievich, vol. II.

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 Elly University platform.

Assessment methods and criteria

The assessment of the acquired knowledge and skills already listed in the purposes of the course will be performed by evaluating a written test in Spanish.

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