OVERVIEW

Female figures in the cultural and artistic development of contemporary Spain (19th and 20th centuries).

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to study in depth some salient aspects of Spanish cultural and social history between the 19th and 21st centuries. Supplementary didactic activities are planned - seminar-led - consisting of guided readings, analysis of pictorial texts, commented viewings of films, etc.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, the knowledge acquired will enable the student to understand the ideas that characterised the feminist claim in Spain and to recognise the literary and artistic works of some of the greatest Spanish intellectuals of the 19th and 20th centuries.

PREREQUISITES

The course, bibliography and examination will be entirely in Spanish. A good knowledge of Spanish is therefore required.

TEACHING METHODS

36 hours of lectures in Spanish with the use of multimedia tools.

Attendance is not compulsory but strongly recommended.

Attending students will be given the opportunity to carry out individual work (optional), the result of which will be presented to the class by the student.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course intends to study in depth the intellectual and artistic work of some of the female figures who best developed their creative vein in a Spain still culturally dominated by an archaic and repressive mentality that assigned women a role of absolute social subordination.

Among others, literary and artistic works by:

-Concepción Arenal (writer)

-Emilia Pardo Bazán (writer)

-Maruja Mallo (painter)

-María Blanchard (painter)

-Lluïsa Vidal i Puig (painter)

-Josefina Molina (film director)

-Cecilia Bartolomé (film director)

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Attending students:

-course notes

-course materials provided in class or uploaded to aulaweb

Non-attending students should contact the lecturer by e-mail to agree on a bibliography.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MARCO SUCCIO (President)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

October 2025

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written examination at the end of the course.

Attending students who choose to do the writing and presentation work proposed by the lecturer will be recognised as part of the examination. Further information will be provided in the classroom.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The student will have to demonstrate that he/she is familiar with the bibliography in the syllabus, that he/she has acquired the critical tools covered in the course and that he/she has developed adequate skills in analysing and contextualising the works and literary texts proposed.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Students are reminded that Aulaweb will be the platform used to communicate detailed information during the lessons and to share some of the study material included in the programme.

Students who have regularly filed a certification of disability, DSA or other special educational needs are advised to contact both the contact person Prof.ssa 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.