Module Identifier | SP20810 | ||
Module Title | MODERN SPANISH POETRY | ||
Academic Year | 2001/2002 | ||
Co-ordinator | Professor Robert Havard | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Pre-Requisite | (Normally) Eligibility for entry to Level 2 Spanish | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 12 | |
Seminars / Tutorials | 4 2 seminars, 2 tutorials | ||
Assessment | Continuous assessment | 3 essays of c.1,200-1,500 words. | 100% |
Pedro Salinas, Spain's greatest love poet since Becquer, with his deceptively simple technique, but whose work probes challenging metaphysical issues.
Federico Garcia Lorca, at his most avant-garde in New York, where he experiments with Freudian free association in an attempt to understand his enigmatic self.
Jorge Guillen, a vitalist who looks at the world in a phenomenological way, and who owes much to Ortega and to the European metaphysical tradition.
There is no examination; assessment is by three term essays.
Syllabus
Weeks 1-4 Jorge Guillen, Cantico
5-8 Pedro Salinas: La voz a ti debida
9-12 Garcia Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York
1) a sound knowledge of three poets of the 1927 Generation in Spain
2) a good knowledge of how to apply close reading skills