19th and 20th Century Spanish Literature (20112)

Degree/study: Degree in Humanities
Year: 3rd.-4th.
Term:1st
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125 hours
Teaching language or languages: spanish
Teaching Staff: Domingo Ródenas

1. Presentation of the subject

Study and interpretation of some of the main works and authors of 19th and 20th-century Spanish Literature, relating them to the aesthetic and socio-cultural context they belong to. A special stress will be put on the modernization process leading to the republican period, on the interruption of this process during the dictatorship and on the efforts made towards restoration during the last decades of the 20th century 

2. Competences to be attained

General competences

Specific competences

1.    Reading and comprehension skills for formally and semantically complex texts. Skills in identifying information implicit in a text. 2.    Analysis and synthesis skills. 3.    Writing skills in one's own language. 4.    Abstract reasoning and networking skills on a precise topic. Understanding the interrelation between Literature, Art, History and Thought. 5.    Information management and processing skills. 6.    Knowledge of cultural diversity. 7.    Ethical reflection skills on human behaviour. 8.    Skills in formulating aesthetical judgements. 9.    Group working skills based on a well-reasoned confrontation of points of view.

1.    Knowledge of the main texts in the history of Spanish Literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. 2.    Knowledge of the intellectual trends that have either favoured or hindered the cultural modernization process. 3.    Skills in understanding and interpreting complex literary texts within their historical, social and cultural context. 4.    Skills in recognising the distinctive traits of a classic or canonical literary piece and in identifying the continuity and the innovative elements. 5.    Analytical reading. Skills in establishing interrelations within a text and with contemporary, anterior and posterior texts.

3. Contents

1. 19th-century Paradigms
    1.1. Larra and the development of Literary Journalism.
    1.2. Novelistic Realism: Galdós.
2. 20th-century Paradigms
    2.1. Modern ruptures: narrative prose.
    2.2. Modern ruptures: lyric.
3. Literature, collective commitment and historical memory.
4. Literature, moral awareness and individual memory.

 

*The full version with the sections 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology, and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.

4. Assessment

5. Bibliography and teaching resources

5.1. Basic bibliography

5.2. Complementary bibliography

5.3. Teaching resources

6. Metodology

7. Planning of activities