SPANISH LITERATURE IN RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- RAFAEL BONILLA CEREZO
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-LIN/05
Training objectives
- Students will study the 17th century Spanish short novel's evolution. They will acquire the competences needed to analyze and comment 16th and 17th century prose literary texts.
Prerequisites
- B2/C1 level of Spanish language.
Course programme
- Students will study Baroque Spanish novel's evolution, by reading and analyzing the following short novels:
1) Las "Novelas ejemplares": "Prólogo", "El Coloquio de los perros", "La señora Cornelia";
2) Lope de Vega: "La prudente venganza" (in "Novelas a Marcia Leonarda");
3) María de Zayas: "El prevenido engañado" (in "Novelas amorosas y ejemplares");
4) Sanz del Castillo: "Quien bien anda, en bien acaba" (in "Mojiganga del gusto"). Didactic methods
- Conversational lectures in presence, with reading and analysis of the texts included in the course programme.
Learning assessment procedures
- Attending and non attending students will take a written exam divided into two parts:
1) Theoretical development of one of the topics of the course (50% of the final note).
2) Text analysis (50% of the final note).
Duration of the test: 2 hours
The following indicators are used: knowledge of the course’s contents; correctness of information and logical conveyance; reference to bibliography; precision of language. Reference texts
- The professor will provide students with all the material needed to prepare the exam.
Non attending students are invited to read also the following texts:
- Colón Calderón, Isabel, La novela corta del siglo XVII, Madrid, El Laberinto, 2001.
- Bonilla Cerezo, Rafael,"Introducción" a Novelas cortas del siglo XVII, Madrid, Cátedra, 2010.
