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2021/2022

Modern Catalan Literature

Code: 100672 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2501801 Catalan and Spanish OT 3 0
2501801 Catalan and Spanish OT 4 0
2501902 English and Catalan OT 3 0
2501902 English and Catalan OT 4 0
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Francesc Xavier Vall Solaz
Email:
Francesc.Vall@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
catalan (cat)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
Yes
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
No

Prerequisites

None.

Objectives and Contextualisation

Modern Catalan Literature is optional in Catalan and Spanish Studies, and in English and Catalan Studies. However, if students opt not to take this subject, they miss engaging with three crucial centuries for cultural evolution.

As an initial university approach to Catalan literature of the 16th-18th centuries, Catalan Literature from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment is a basic course, albeit relatively complex and critical.

Fundamental aspects:
1. to enquire into the concept of Decadència and to determine the incidence of historical events on literature,
2. to examine cultural periodization (terminology, characterisation of movements, conditioning factors, models, particularities...),
3. to take note of the vitality of popular literature,
4. to highlight the main trends in poetry, theatre and prose,
5. to gain an awareness of the most representative authors and works,
6. to improve text-commentary abilities.

 

Competences

    Catalan and Spanish
  • Apply concepts, resources and methods of analysis literary Catalan literature considering the context of periodization of Western literary history.
  • Critically analyze Catalan literature regarding the historical circumstances in which it falls.
  • Develop critical thinking and reasoning and knowing how to communicate effectively both in your mother tongue and in other languages.
  • Develop historical studies on Catalan literary tradition and interpretive analysis on trends, genres and authors of Catalan literature.
  • Interpret literary texts from cross philological bases (stylistic, linguistic, etc.) and comparisons.
  • Respect the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  • Students can apply the knowledge to their own work or vocation in a professional manner and have the powers generally demonstrated by preparing and defending arguments and solving problems within their area of study.
  • Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their study area) to issue judgments that include reflection on important issues of social, scientific or ethical.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
    English and Catalan
  • Apply concepts, resources and methods of analysis literary Catalan literature considering the context of periodization of Western literary history.
  • Critically analyze Catalan literature regarding the historical circumstances in which it falls.
  • Develop critical thinking and reasoning and knowing how to communicate effectively both in your mother tongue and in other languages.
  • Develop historical studies on Catalan literary tradition and interpretive analysis on trends, genres and authors of Catalan literature.
  • Interpret literary texts from cross philological bases (stylistic, linguistic, etc.) and comparisons.
  • Respect the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  • Students can apply the knowledge to their own work or vocation in a professional manner and have the powers generally demonstrated by preparing and defending arguments and solving problems within their area of study.
  • Students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their study area) to issue judgments that include reflection on important issues of social, scientific or ethical.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analyze literary texts from bases and comparative philology, applied to the study of the texts of the modern era and write analyzes of modern Catalan literary language texts.
  2. Apply the tools and know consult the specific documentary sources.
  3. Comment on literary texts, apply the acquired tools and take into account the historical and sociocultural context.
  4. Commenting on literary texts, applying the acquired tools and taking into account the historical and sociocultural context.
  5. Critically interpreting literary works taking into account the relationships between the different areas of literature and its relationships with human, artistic and social areas.
  6. Describe the historical context of modern Catalan literature and literary works related with its historical and cultural context.
  7. Describe the historical context of modern Catalan literature and relate literary works to their historical and cultural context.
  8. Develop critical texts about the works and trends of modern Catalan literature, with relevant domain conceptual and methodological tests and write original domain of the relevant literature, authors and works of modern period.
  9. Develop effective written work and oral presentations and adapted to the appropriate register.
  10. Expose knowledge about the history, art and other cultural movements.
  11. Identify the main and secondary ideas and express them with linguistic correctness.
  12. Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
  13. Interpret texts in depth and provide arguments for critical analysis.
  14. Maintain an attitude of respect for the opinions, values, behaviors and practices of others.
  15. Properly apply the knowledge gained to data collection and management of documentary sources application to the study of Catalan language and literature.
  16. Strengthen the capacity of reading, interpretation and critical analysis of literary texts and language.
  17. Use information in accordance with scientific ethics.
  18. Write interpretive essays on historical and modern Catalan literary tradition, and argue and present overviews phenomena of modern Catalan literature.

Content

1. REVISING OF THE CONCEPT OF DECADÈNCIA
2. THE RENAISSANCE, THE COUNTER-REFOMATION AND MANIERISM
3. BAROQUE
4. ROCOCO, THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND NEOCLASSICISM
5. POPULAR LITERATURE

Annotation

The curriculum of the combined philological degrees is in the process of being updated. Therefore, 100672 Modern Catalan Literature is taught in it with alternative teaching with the subject 105840 Catalan Literature from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. You can consult its teaching guide on the website of the Degree in Catalan Philology: Studies in Literature and Linguistics.

Methodology

Flipped classroom.

Explanations of the historical context, cultural trends and the most relevant aspects of genres, authors and works

Discussion of problematic issues and readings.

The content, the assessment activities and deadlines will be particularised in class. In addition, this information will be posted on the Virtual Campus.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Theoretical classes and discussion of readings 43.5 1.74 1, 4, 3, 6, 7, 10, 12, 11, 5, 13, 14, 16, 17
Type: Supervised      
Oral or written commentary 30 1.2 1, 15, 4, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 11, 5, 13, 14, 16, 18, 17
Type: Autonomous      
Documentation, reading, writing and study 69 2.76 1, 15, 2, 4, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 11, 5, 13, 14, 16, 9, 18, 17

Assessment

Grades will be publishing in the Virtual Campus and they may be reviewed.
 
To pass the course, you must get at least a 5 (out of 10) weighted average. The grade of «not assessable» will be applicable if a student fails the subject overall but has not failed any of the constituent assessment activities.
 
In accordance with UAB regulations, «In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity [copying, plagiarism, impersonation...], the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject».
 
The activities in which irregularities were committed, the participation and the essay may not be recovered.
 
In order to be eligible for re-assessment, students must  have completed 2/3 of the percentage of the assessment activities and have obtained a subject grade between 3.5 and 4.9. The maximum overall grade awarded in re-assessment is 5.
 
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken on site, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
 

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Essays 30-40% 4 0.16 1, 15, 2, 4, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 11, 5, 13, 14, 16, 9, 18, 17
Exams 40-50% 1.5 0.06 1, 15, 2, 4, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 11, 5, 13, 14, 16, 9, 18, 17
Participation 10-20% 2 0.08 1, 15, 4, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 11, 5, 13, 14, 16, 18, 17

Bibliography

Readings 
A dossier of theoretical or literary texts (Virtual Campus).
SERAFÍ, Pere, Poesies catalanes, Josep Romeu i Figueras (ed.), Barcelona: Barcino, 2001, p. 58, 67-68, 71, 86-87, 97-102, 125, 130-134, 409, 136-137, 149-150, 144-148, 151-154, 172-175, 184-185, 218-220, 279, 287, 312-313 and 340-343.
FONTANELLA, Francesc, Lo Desengany: Poema dramàtic, Obra completa de Francesc Fontanella, edició crítica electrònica, Pep Valsalobre; Marc Sogues (coord. i ed.); Albert Rossich; Eulàlia Miralles; Marta Castaño; Anna Garcia Busquets; Verònica Zaragoza; Narcís Figueras (ed.), Girona: Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat de Girona, 2017. https://www.nise.cat/ca-es/Biblioteca-Digital/Autors/Autor/Poema/pid/1352/Lo_Desengany__Poema_dramatic
RAMIS I RAMIS, Joan, Lucrècia, Vicent de Melchor; Pep Valsalobre (ed.), Bellcaire d'Empordà: Vitel·la, 2019 / Lucrècia o Roma libre: Tragèdia en cinc actes, Sergi Marí (ed.), Barcelona: Institut del Teatre, 2017. http://redit.institutdelteatre.cat/handle/20.500.11904/875?locale-attribute=es

Approaches
BARGALLÓ, Josep, Literatura catalana del segle XVI al XVIII, Barcelona: Teide, 1987.
GABRIEL, Pere, Història de la cultura catalana, vol. II-III, Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1996-1997.
MIRALLES, Eulàlia, Del Cinccents al Setcents: Tres-cents anys de literatura catalana, Bellcaire d'Empordà: Vitel·la, 2010.
RIQUER, Martí de; COMAS, Antoni; MOLAS, Joaquim (dir.), Història de la literatura catalana, vol. III-IV, Barcelona: Ariel, 1964.
RIQUER I PERMANYER, Borja de (dir.), Història, política, societat i cultura dels Països Catalans, vol. IV-V, Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1995 i 1997.
ROSSICH, Albert (dir.),«La literatura catalana entre el barroc i el romanticisme», Caplletra, nº 9 (autumn 1990), p. 35-57. https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Caplletra/article/view/299957/389416
-, Panorama crític de la literatura catalana: Edat moderna, Barcelona: Vicens Vives, 2011.
-, «Renaixement, Manierisme i Barroc en la cultura catalana», Actes del VIII Col·loqui Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes, vol. II, Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 1989, p. 149-179. http://aillc.espais.iec.cat/files/2018/09/8_2_aillc_149_180.pdf
ROSSICH, Albert; VALSALOBRE, Pep, Literatura catalana moderna, siglos XVI-XVIII, Madrid: Síntesis, 2011.
RUBIÓ I BALAGUER, Jordi, Història de la literatura catalana, vol. II-III, Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 1985-1986.
SOLERVICENS, Josep (dir.), Literatura catalana moderna, Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana / Barcino / Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2016.
VALSALOBRE, Pep; ROSSICH, Albert, Literatura i cultura catalanes (segles XVII-XVIII), Barcelona: UOC, 2007. https://cataleg.uab.cat/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2084574

Dictionaries
BOU, Enric, Nou diccionari 62 de la literatura catalana, Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2000.
BROCH, Àlex, Diccionari de la literatura catalana, Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2008. https://www.enciclopedia.cat

Bibliographies
DURAN, Eulàlia; SOLERVICENS, Josep, Orientacions bibliogràfiques sobre literatura catalana moderna (1474-1833), Barcelona: UB, 1993.
http://www.quern.cat
http://www.traces.uab.cat

Software

No specific software.