Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of Spanish Language and Literature
- Code
- BBI-SFI-424
- Title
- Genres and poetics in Spanish-language literatures
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 4
- Language
- es
- Learning outcomes
- The student who concludes the course successfully is well-informed and well-oriented in the field of genres and poetics related to the Spanish language and has a general overview of their main characteristics and wider contexts. Knows the scientific terminology of poetics, and is able to compare Hispanic paradigms with world literary pieces from a diachronic aspect. Has a general overview of the poetic traditions of the 20th century Hispanic literature, and recognizes the continuity of the classic traditions in modern literature. Interprets different kinds of literary genres and their specific characteristics in Spanish reflecting a wide range of discursive and generic heterogeneity. Writes and speaks coherently and in a neat and literary style in Spanish language, and produces elaborate and detailed texts in diverse topics, especially those related to the Hispanic literary genres. A) Knowledge Students ● have at least C1 level, usable language skills, intercultural communicative competence. ● know the rules and registers of spoken and written Spanish, are able to use Spanish fluently, correctly, confidently, in the given context. ● know the genres and poetics of Spanish language literature. ● know the basic rhetorical phenomena of Spanish. ● know the sources of information that can be used in the learning of Spanish language literature, the possibilities of learning about them. B) Ability Students are ● able to use Spanish fluently, correctly, confidently, in the given context. ● able to read original literary texts in Spanish and analyze them with literary criticism. ● able to apply their knowledge correctly and contextually in the course of fluent use of the target language. ● able to summarize research results accurately and present individual creative textual analyzes in the form of oral presentations and written argumentative essays. C) Attitude Students ● strive to acquire new knowledge and skills. ● are committed to development through the use of available technologies, among other tools ● consider it important to continuously improve his/her knowledge and skills. ● strive to continuosuly and individually develop their specialised professional and intercultural knowledge. ● are open to new phenomena and are able to critique these. D) Autonomy and responsibility Students ● are committed to intensive learning. ● perform learning-related tasks independently. ● take responsibility for their own work, development, achievements and failures. ● have a significant degree of independence in raising and elaborating comprehensive and special issues of their profession, in representing and justifying professional views.
- Course content
- The presence of classic traditions in modern Hispanic literature, for example, Edgar Allan Poe’s influence on Spanish speaking authors and their theories (i.e. theory of the short story, fantastic and gothic literature, the detective story in Horacio Quiroga, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar or Carlos Fuentes); parallelisms between the European Vanguard manifestos, poetry and the Spanish American authors of the New Narrative; the Spanish Golden Age theatre in Federico García Lorca’s art; Magic Realism, its origins, definitions and characteristics in the colonial chronical and in modern literature.
- Assessment method
- Written and oral exam. Grading 1-5.
- Bibliography
- Pablo Brescia: Modelos y prácticas en el cuento hispanoamericano: Arreola, Borges, Cortázar. Iberoamericana–Vervuert, Madrid–Frankfurt am Main, 2011. Gwynne Edwards: El teatro de Federico García Lorca. Gredos, Madrid, 1983. Alicia Llanera: Realismo mágico y lo real maravilloso: una cuestión de verosimilitud. Hispamérica, Gaithersburg, 1997. Francisco Rodríguez Adrados: Del teatro griego al teatro de hoy. Alianza, Madrid, 1999. Maria Luisa Rosenblat: Lo fantástico y lo detectivesco: aproximaciones comparativas a la obra de Edgar Allan Poe. Equinoccio, Caracas, 1997. Further required reading is part of every course syllabus.