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.
Type of test: written test consisting of four open questions, two relating to the general part and two relating to the lecture part of the course.
Session of two hours.
Evaluation criteria: The written test is evaluated on a scale of 0-30. The honors are awarded in the case of reaching the maximum score on each part of the written test, together with the mastership of the economic language. During the test the student is asked to:
1. Identify and place a movement, a literary subgenre, or a literary cycle in its historical context and describe its origin and development within Spanish-American literature (8 points);
2. Place a text which was read during the general part of the course in the whole author's work, also by connecting it with relevant biographical information (8 points);
3. Write a short critical comment on a poetic text or a fragment of a given narrative text, taken from a work that was read and analyzed during the lecture part of the course, focusing the analysis on the author's style (7 points);
4. Write a critical commentary on a narrative work that was read during the lecture part of the course, focusing the analysis on its internal and external structure (7 points).
The grade is published within three weeks following the test.
Other information
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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development
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