Specialization Seminar: Spanish Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Command of the Spanish language is recommended.

Teaching Methods

In each academic year, a list of compulsory-reading literary works will be selected. Classes will function in the form of seminar sessions, relying on the students’ active and permanent participation. Computer and audiovisual resources will be used. The students will have to present critical commentaries on texts distributed by the teacher and will also be required to write and present a final research paper.

Learning Outcomes

The objective of this unit will be to enable the student to learn about the artistic, cultural and literary realities of Francoist and post-Francoist Spain, privileging a chronological context that is often downplayed in Bachelor’s degrees. By the end of the semester the student must be able to understand the substantial differences between the ways of artistic and literary representation in a democratic and dictatorial society, having developed cognitive skills that will allow him/her to understand and explain the ways in which, during the Francoist era, artists managed to elude the dictatorship and how, during the democratic regime, literature could still play an important civic role for the community.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Contemporary Spain: from the Civil War to the present.

2. Literature and Arts in Franco’s Spain.

3. Spanish narrative, theater and poetry after the Civil War.

4. Spanish culture in exile.

5. Contemporary literary and artistic discourse.

6. Literature at school.

 

N.B. The syllabus and bibliography may change depending on teaching staff.

Head Lecturer(s)

António Apolinário Caetano da Silva Lourenço

Assessment Methods

Continuous Assessment
Oral or written presentation on texts or other materials handed in by the teacher: 30.0%
Research work: 70.0%

Bibliography

Soldevila Durante, I. (2001). Historia de la novela española (1936-2000). Madrid: Cátedra
Martínez Cachero, J. M.  (1997). La novela española entre 1936 y el fin de siglo. Madrid: Castalia.
Sanz Villanueva, S. (1980).  Historia de la novela social española (1942-1975). Madrid: Alhambra.
Yerro Villanueva, T. (1977). Aspectos técnicos y estructurales de la novela española actual. Pamplona: Ediciones Universidad de Navarra.
Villena, L. A. de (2000). Teorías y poetas: panorama de una generación completa en la última poesía española: 1980-2000. Barcelona: Pré-Textos.
Debicki, A. P. (1997). Historia de la poesía española del siglo XX: desde la modernidad hasta el presente. Madrid: Gredos.
Doménech R. F., & Peral Vega E. (Eds.). (2003). Historia del teatro español. Vol.2: Del siglo XVIII a la época actual. Madrid. Gredos.