Module Identifier |
SP30920 |
Module Title |
MODERN SPAIN (1930 - 2000) |
Academic Year |
2007/2008 |
Co-ordinator |
Dr Jose M Goni Perez |
Semester |
Intended for use in future years |
Next year offered |
N/A |
Next semester offered |
N/A |
Pre-Requisite |
(Normally) eligibility for entry to Level 3 Spanish. |
Course delivery |
Lecture | 2 per week (lectures/seminars/tutorials) |
Assessment |
Assessment Type | Assessment Length/Details | Proportion |
Semester Exam | 2 Hours Written exam - 2 essays in 2 hours | 60% |
Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: 2 essays of 1,500 - 2,000 words. Only the better of the two marks will be taken for the continuous assessment element. This is to allow some assessment to be formative as well as (or instead of) summative.
If a student fails to submit one piece of the two required, and does not supply the tutor concerned with valid reasons/evidence in writing, the mark for the one piece of work submitted will be carried forward as a continuous assessment mark, but divided by two.
If no assessed work is submitted, the mark for the continuous assessment element (which will be fed into the overall
module assessment) will be zero. | 40% |
Supplementary Exam | 1 x 2 hour examination if continuous assessment submitted. 1 x 3 examination if no continuous assessment submitted. | 100% |
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Learning outcomes
On completion of this module students should have:
1) a good knowledge of the Spanish Civil War, the Franco dictatorship and the transition to democracy
2) specific knowledge of four texts that reflect the key issues of these years
Brief description
A study of the making of modern Spain from the turmoil of the Second Republic and the trauma of the Spanish Civil War 1936-39, through to the Franco Dictatorship and the transition to democracy after Franco's death. Against this sociopolitical background, students explore through major representative works (of novel, film and poetry) the experience of living in twentieth-century Spain.
In their assignments students may choose to emphasise either literary/cultural or sociopolitical issues, or the way the latter are treated by writers.
Syllabus
Weeks 1-6 the Second Republic and the Spanish Civil War: two crucial phases illustrated by Alberti's depiction of Madrid under siege in De un momento a otro (poesia) and by Cela's tremendista novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte.
Weeks 7-12 The two novels by Delibes and Goytisolo are read against the background of the political changes which took place in Spain under the Franco regime.
Reading Lists
Books
** Recommended Text
Balcells J.M. (1993) Introduction to Rafael Alberti, De un momento a otro
Barcelona
Bowra C M Poetry and Politics, p 124 etc - The Creative Experiment
Lonsdon 1949, 220253 ( on Alberti)
David Gilmour (1985) The Transformation of Spain
London
Havard, Robert (2001) The Crucified Mind
Tamesis, London
Hoyle Alan (1994) Cela: La familia de Pascual Duarte, critical guide
Grant & Cutler
Nantell J A (1987) Ordering the Chaos: Rafael Alberti's Elegia civica,
Hispanofila 57-80
Paul Preston (1986) The Triumph of Democracy in Spain
London
Preston, Paul Franco
Rose Alan (1991) Surrealism and Communism
New York
Thomas, Hugh The Spanish Civil War
Penguin
Wesseling P (1977) 'Violence in Counterpoint: Alberti's Poems of 1935' - Also Revolution and Tradition,The Poetry of R Alberti, Chapel Hill 1981
Hispanofila 220-26
** Consult For Futher Information
Alberti, Rafael (1993) De un momento a otro (poesia y historia) (NB. This is not the play by the same title)
Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias
Atxaga, Bernardo El hombre solo
Ediciones B or other
Carr, Raymond (1985) Modern Spain 1875-1980
Oxford
Cela, Camilo Jose La familia de Pascual Duarte
Prentice-Hall or other
Grandes, Almudena Modelos de mujer
Tusquets coleccion Andanzas
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6