Module Identifier |
SP10610 |
Module Title |
HISPANIC LITERATURE AND CIVILIZATION |
Academic Year |
2005/2006 |
Co-ordinator |
Mr Matthew Richards |
Semester |
Semester 2 |
Other staff |
Mr Agustin De Burgos Lopez |
Course delivery |
Lecture | |
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Seminars / Tutorials | |
Assessment |
Assessment Type | Assessment Length/Details | Proportion |
Semester Exam | 2 Hours Written exam. | 70% |
Semester Assessment | Essay: Assessed essay (1,500-2,000 words) | 30% |
Supplementary Exam | 1 x 2 hour examination if continuous assessment submitted. 1 x 3 hour examination if no continuous assessment submitted. | 100% |
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Learning outcomes
On completion of this module students should have:
1) a knowledge of key Spanish literary movements from the traditional ballads to modern times
2) specific knowledge of three key Spanish texts
Brief description
This module offers an introduction to the key themes and perennial topics of Spain and Latin America as found in her literature and history:
1. Islamic Spain and the Reconquest: Ballads of the Reconquest
2. The age of discovery and Spain as a world power
3. The Picaresque: Lazarillo and the origins of the novel
4. The age of Independence in Latin America
5. Revolution and Democracy in Latin America
6. The modern Latin American novel
7. 1800-1939: The loss of empire through to the Spanish Civil War
8. Modern Hispanic literature
9. Federico Garcia Lorca
10. The rural dramas of Garcia Lorca: Yerma
11. Literary Analysis of Yerma
Reading Lists
Books
** Recommended Text
Anon (1966, c1963.) La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades
0719002109
** Supplementary Text
Atkinson, William Christopher. (1960 (various p) A history of Spain and Portugal
Watt, W. Montgomery (1965.) A history of Islamic Spain
0852243324
Bethell, Leslie (ed) (1984-< 1) The Cambridge history of Latin America
0521232260
Deyermond, A. D. (1975.) Lazarillo de Tormes :a critical guide
0729300137
Casas, Bartolome de las (1992.) A short account of the destruction of the Indies
0140445625
Edwards, Gwynne. (1980 (various p) Lorca :the theatre beneath the sand
0714527718
Franco, Jean. (1973.) Spanish American literature since independence
0510322964
Herr, Richard. (1958) The eighteenth-century revolution in Spain
069105116X
Wright, Roger [translated by] (c1987.) Spanish ballads
085668340X
Davies, R. Trevor. (1937.) The golden century of Spain 1501-1621
Parker, Alexander A. (1967.) Literature and the delinquent :the picaresque novel in Spain and Europe, 1599-1753
0852243340
Rico, Francisco. (1984.) The Spanish picaresque novel and the point of view
0521278244
Burkholder, Mark A, Lyman L. Johnson (1994.) Colonial Latin America
0195080890
** Should Be Purchased
Federico García Lorca Yerma
A Deyermond Lazarillo de Tormes
Critical guides to Spanish texts
Colin Smith Spanish Ballads
Duckworth Publising
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 4