Seminário de Espanhol

General characterization

Prerequisites

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Bibliography

CONNELLY, Frances S. The Grotesque in Western Art and Culture. The image at Play. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012
PUELLES ROMERO, Luis. El asalto a la belleza. En torno a una estética de lo grotesco. Madrid: Maia Ediciones, 2019.
SANTA MARÍA DE ABREU, P. Imperiales esperpentos ibéricos. Ed. Ca’ Foscari. Venezia: 2023 (on line, open-access).
SANTOS ZAS, M. (Dir.) Cátedra Valle-Inclán de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (on line): www.cervantesvirtual.com/portales/catedra_valle_inclan/
VILLANUEVA, D. «Valle-Inclán entre los dos Modernismos», conferencia, Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2015 (online: http://canal.march.es/es/coleccion/valle-inclan-entre-dos-modernismos-1320)
ZAMORA VICENTE, A. «Introducción» a Luces de bohemia. Esperpento. Ed. A. Z. Vicente. Madrid: Austral (qualquer data).

Teaching method

Seminars will be both theoretical and practical, connecting information from literary history, theory and criticism on the proposed Work for study. Individual oral presentations and collective discussion of critical readings and reflections, guided by the teacher. Tutorial supervision of the research work related to the final chosen paper by the student.

Evaluation method

Knowledge assessment is individual and continuous. It consists of preparation and oral presentations of partial works; annotated reading notes/reviews of essays and the literary corpus under study; group discussion; and a final written monograph, presented and defended orally. Use of the Spanish language will be considered a positive factor.

Subject matter

1. Theories and scientific research methods in the field of literary and cultural studies.
2. Investigation of issues related to the topic.
3. Guidelines - theoretical and methodological - for writing a paper on the proposed subject:
Valle-Inclán’s Grotesque Esperpento: A contemporary of European Modernism, the multifaceted writer Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) is a unique and undisputed figure in the contemporary Iberian literary canon. Integrated into the Western poetics of grotesque counter-representation, his entire career is a revealing example of how modernisms (the avant-garde in Spain) evolved from the non-realist movements of the late 19th century. In this final year seminar, we propose an in-depth and exploratory study of the work Luces de bohemia (1924), a notable play from his ‘esperpéntico’ cycle. It will thus be possible not only to study this true contemporary classic of Iberian and Ibero-American literature, but also to situate it within the Iberian tradition, in which, from Cervantes to Goya, the grotesque mode of representation is one of the most persistent and characteristic dimensions.

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