Literature in Spanish : Critical Approaches

Teacher(s)

Fabry Geneviève; Guardia Hernandez Andrea Milena;

Language

Spanisn

Prerequisites

LFIAL1740

Main themes

We will look at a corpus of short literary texts (narrative, poetic and theatrical works) using a progressive approach. To begin with, the emphasis will be on the development of short forms in the Spanish speaking world (especially the microrrelato of the 19th and 21st centuries). At a later stage, we will undertake an analysis based on the main categories of narratology and stylistics. A methodical procedure for analysing texts will be put forward. 

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	This course is designed to provide students with the foundations of methodology for literary analysis by means of short contemporary texts (stories, poems, mini-theatre from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries) from Spanish literature.  By the end of the course, students should be able to  site a text within the system of literary genres of the Spanish-speaking world ; know the main characteristics and stages of development of each genre ; identify, with a critical eye, the main narratological and stylistic categories in a short literary text.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Bibliography

- Andrés-Suárez, Irene. Antología del microrrelato español (1906-2011) : el cuarto género narrativo (Letras hispánicas; 703), Cátedra: Madrid, 2012. 524 p.
- Andrés-Suárez, Irene. El microrrelato español : una estética de la elipsis (Cristal de cuarzo; 4), Menoscuarto Ediciones: Palencia, 2010. 366 p.
- Bensoussan, Albert, Bensoussan Mathilde, Jean-Claude Le Bigot, Versification  espagnole et petit traité des figures. Université de Rennes, 1992.
- Noguerol Jiménez, Francisca (ed.), Escritos disconformes : nuevos modelos de lectura, Salamanca : Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2004.
-  Valls, Fernando, Soplando vidrio y otros estudios sobre el microrrelato español, Madrid, Páginas de espuma, 2008.

Faculty or entity

FIAL