Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of Spanish Language and Literature
- Code
- BBI-SPA17-334
- Title
- History of Spanish-American literature 1.
- Usual semester
- Spring
- Published semester
- 2025/26/2
- ECTS
- 4
- Language
- es
- Learning outcomes
- The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge of the most influential trends, works, and most important antecedents of 20th century Latin American literature and to enable them to evaluate them responsibly. Through independent work (reading, argumentation), they will learn the professionally accepted procedures for the reception of diverse Hispanic-American texts and cultural phenomena and their diversity. 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 characteristic intellectual and artistic trends, forms and works of modern Spanish American cultures, with special regard to Spanish American literature and its social aspects. ● know the sources of information that can be used in the teaching and learning of Hispanic literature, the possibilities of learning about them, textbooks, the basics of research methodology. 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 and pedagogical activities. ● 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 students' knowledge and skills. ● realistically assess the role of Spanish in teaching language and culture. ● strive to continuously and individually develop their specialized professional and intercultural knowledge. ● consider it important to develop tolerance towards ethnicities and nationalities. ● 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
- Reading and reasoning. The most important trends, phenomena, genres, authors, from the historical avant-garde to the new prose, and the most important literary historical antecedents of 20th century Spanish-American literature (the chivalric novel, the picaresque novel, the chronicles). The radical aesthetic paradigm shift that followed Spanish-American modernism, first in poetry and then in narrative literature. The Spanish-American avant-garde poetry and prose, the landscape novel, existentialist prose, the indigenist novel, neorealism, magical realism, fantastic literature, experimental prose.
- Assessment method
- Seminar work, continuous assessment, oral presentation, oral and written argument, essay. Grading 1-5.
- Bibliography
- José Miguel Oviedo (2001). Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana. III-IV. Madrid: Alianza. Jorge Schwartz (1991). Las vanguardias latinoamericanas. Madrid: Cátedra. Donald L. Shaw (1999). Nueva narrativa hispanoamericana. Madrid: Cátedra. Saúl Yurkievich (1971). Fundadores de la nueva poesía latinoamericana. Barcelona: Barral. Further required reading is part of every course syllabus.