Contemporary Spain (1975-2015) through History and Literature
After attending this course and studying the proposed bibliography, the student will have the necessary skills to frame the role of urban space within a novel. At the same time, he/she will have acquired more concrete knowledge of Spanish narrative production in which the city, and specifically the capital Madrid, plays a predominant role in plot development.
36 hours of lectures in the first semester.
Students are invited to register on the course's aulaweb page, which will be used for teacher communications and the uploading of material useful for exam preparation.
Students who have duly filed a certification of disability, DSA or other special educational needs are advised to contact both the contact person Prof. Sara Dickinson (sara.dickinson@unige.it) and the lecturer at the beginning of the course, in order to agree on teaching and examination methods that, while respecting the teaching objectives, take into account individual learning methods and provide suitable compensatory tools.
The course aims to provide tools for historical and literary understanding of the relationship between urban space, and in particular the city of Madrid, and the narrative genre. The central part of the course will focus on the analysis of the presence of Madrid in the Spanish novel of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Theoretical aspects relating to the role of urban space in the novel and historical-political aspects will also be explored in order to help the student focus on the importance of the capital city in the social, economic and cultural development of Spain.
The bibliography will be communicated at the beginning of the course.
Ricevimento: The student reception takes place, by appointment by e-mail, in the lecturer's office at Piazza Santa Sabina 2, 5th floor, Iberistics section.
MARCO SUCCIO (President)
ANDREA BAGLIONE
ALESSIA CASSANI (President Substitute)
October 2024
SPANISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE MOD.1
Written examination at the end of the course.
The student is expected to demonstrate knowledge of the bibliography in the syllabus, to have acquired the critical tools covered in the course and to have developed adequate skills in the analysis and contextualisation of literary texts.
