The Spanish Avant-Garde

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1. Demonstrate awareness of key trends in early-twentieth century Spanish literature, artistic practice and culture.
2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of selected practitioners’ work.
3. Identify key aspects, devices and characteristics of the works / practices studied.
4. Analyse and interpret textual and visual material.
5. Engage in meaningful discussions and debate issues related to the course.
6. Formulate and articulate their own analytical thinking.
7. Assimilate and evaluate the work of selected critics.
8. Identify and use relevant subject-specific electronic and library resources.
9. Present their ideas in a clear and coherent manner both orally and in writing.

This module will introduce students to the avant-garde in its Hispanic context via an exploration of a variety of media, including film, the plastic arts, drama, performance and poetry. Students will explore the origins of the Spanish avant-garde as well as its relationship to the wider national and transnational cultural context. Students will have the opportunity to explore influential people, works and movements, including female practitioners, as well as the early work of such figures as Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Óscar Domínguez, Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca, Luis Buñuel, Maruja Mallo, Concha Méndez and Rafael Alberti.

This module will cover the following areas: changing identities in the early C20th; sin-sombrerismo, the flâneur and flânerie; distortion and the grotesque; el esperpento; lo cinemático; dynamism, multiplicity and fragmentation; Futurism, Ultraísmo and Creacionismo; the female vanguard and the modern woman; the popular and neo-casticismo; Surrealism in its Spanish context; the Paris Connection.

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