20th Century Literature (20114)
Degree/study:Degree in Humanities
Year: 3rd-4th
Term: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125 hours
Teaching language or languages: spanish
Teaching Staff: Javier Aparicio Maydeu
1. Presentation of the subject
The main goals of this course are to develop analysis and reflection skills on literary texts in general and to acquire some basic knowledge about the European aesthetical canon and history of the 20th century.
2. Competences to be attained
| General competences | Specific competences |
| Analytical reading and text-contextualization skills. Applying Narratology and Fiction Theory knowledge, as well as socio-historical context information, to the studied texts. |
Knowledge of the main authors and the essential trends of 20th-century Latin American Narrative, which has had a great importance to Universal Contemporary Narrative. Knowledge of the relations between the main authors of Latin American Narrative and of the trends in Contemporary Narrative Fiction. |
3. Contents
1. Introduction to 20th-century Latin American Narrative: socio-political and cultural context, and main trends.
2. Gaucho Narrative: Don Segundo Sombra, by Ricardo Güiraldes.
3. Indigenist Novel: from Arguedas to the example of El mundo es ancho y ajeno, by Ciro Alegría.
4. Regional Novel: Doña Bárbara, by Rómulo Gallegos.
5. Magic realism: from Carpentier, the chronicle of the Indias and Faulkner in Cien años de soledad to the dreamlike language and the self-parody in Del amor y otros demonios, by Gabriel García Márquez.
6. The Dictator Novel as an emblematic genre: from El otoño del patriarca, by Gabriel García Márquez, to Yo, el Supremo, by Roa Bastos.
7. Borges and the Latin American Narrative closed in a bottle in European culture.
8. The Vanguardia inheritance and the excited language: Tres tristes tigres, by Cabrera Infante.
9. The Boom: myth and Cosmopolite Narrative. From Donoso and Cortázar to Vargas Llosa and from Barcelona to the world.
10. Latin American Narrative: from post-colonialism to mainstream.
*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