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2022/2023

19th Century Catalan Literature

Code: 100695 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2501801 Catalan and Spanish Studies OT 3 1
2501801 Catalan and Spanish Studies OT 4 1
2501902 English and Catalan Studies OT 3 1
2501902 English and Catalan Studies OT 4 1

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

This is an optional subject for the Bachelor's Degree in Catalan and Spanish Studies, and for the Bachelor's Degree in English and Catalan Studies. However, if someone opts not to take it, he misses engaging with a crucial century.

As an initial approach to university studies in Catalan literature of the 19century, this is a basic course, albeit relatively complex and critical.

Fundamental aspects:
1. to enquire into the concept of «Renaixença» 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 highlight the main trends in poetry, theatre and prose,
4. to gain an awareness of the most representative authors and works,
5. to take note of the persistence of traditional literature (fostered by folklore studies) and the transformation of popular culture within industrial society,
6. to improve text-commentary abilities.

Competences

    Catalan and Spanish Studies
  • Apply concepts, resources and methods of analysis literary Catalan literature considering the context of periodization of Western literary history.
  • Assess so rigorously argued and the main trends and authors and most representative works of Catalan literature.
  • 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 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 Studies
  • Apply concepts, resources and methods of analysis literary Catalan literature considering the context of periodization of Western literary history.
  • Assess so rigorously argued and the main trends and authors and most representative works of Catalan literature.
  • 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 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. Apply the tools and know consult the specific documentary sources.
  2. Comment on literary texts, apply the acquired tools and take into account the historical and sociocultural context.
  3. Commenting on literary texts, applying the acquired tools and taking into account the historical and sociocultural context.
  4. Critically interpret literary works take into account the relationships between different areas of literature and its relationships with human, artistic and social areas.
  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 contemporary Catalan literature and literary works related with its historical and cultural context.
  7. Develop critical texts about the main trends and authors and most representative works of contemporary Catalan literature, write essays and original domain of the relevant literature, authors and works of the contemporary period.
  8. Develop effective written work and oral presentations and adapted to the appropriate register.
  9. Expose knowledge about the history, art and other cultural movements.
  10. Identify the main and secondary ideas and express them with linguistic correctness.
  11. Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
  12. Interpret texts in depth and provide arguments for critical analysis.
  13. Interpret the Western cultural tradition from the nineteenth century and up to the present, and recognize text in a contemporary shots of the Western tradition.
  14. Maintain an attitude of respect for the opinions, values, behaviors and practices of others.
  15. Recognize literary texts from bases and comparative philology, apply them to texts by contemporary Catalan literature and write analyzes of contemporary Catalan language literary texts.
  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 contemporary Catalan literary tradition, and argue and present overviews on the phenomena of contemporary Catalan literature.

Content

1. THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN CATALANA LITERATURE. Historical circumstances, the situation of the language and the confluence of cultural currents. Antoni Puigblanch and Vicent Salvà

2. THE «RENAIXENÇA».The term, the causes, the slopes, the periodisation, the institutions (the Jocs Florals and the Jove Catalunya), the press, the expansion and the ideological sectors

3. CULTURAL TENDENCIES
3.1. Romanticism. Pere Mata and Manuel Milà i Fontanals
3.2. Realism and Naturalism. Joan Sardà and Josep Yxart1.

4. GENRES
4.1. Poetry. Bonaventura Carles Aribau, Joaquim Rubió i Ors, Marià Aguiló, Josep Lluís Pons i Gallarza, Teodor Llorente, Jacint Verdaguer, Joaquim M. Bartrina, Apel·les Mestres and Miquel Costa i Llobera
4.2. Theatre. Frederic Soler, Víctor Balaguer and Àngel Guimerà
4.3. Prose. Antoni de Bofarull, Robert Robert, Emili Vilanova, Martí Genís i Aguilar, Narcís Oller, Josep Pin i Soler, Carles Bosch de la Trinxeria, Marià Vayreda and Dolors Monserdà


5. TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE POPULAR LITERATURE. Josep Robrenyo and Josep Anselm Clavé

 

Annotation

The curriculum of the combined philological bachelor's degrees is in the process of updating. Therefore, this subject is taught, by alternative teaching, with 105842 Literatura Catalana del Romanticisme al Realisme. You can consult its teaching guide on the website of the Bachelor's 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.

Tutorials.

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 3, 2, 6, 9, 11, 10, 5, 4, 13, 12, 14, 16, 8, 15, 17
Type: Supervised      
Oral or written commentary 30 1.2 1, 3, 2, 6, 7, 9, 11, 10, 5, 4, 13, 12, 14, 16, 8, 15, 18, 17
Type: Autonomous      
Documentation, reading and study 69 2.76 1, 6, 11, 10, 5, 4, 13, 12, 14, 16, 17

Assessment

The assessment activities and deadlines will be particularised in class. In addition, this information will be posted on the Virtual Campus, as well as the grades of assessment activities, which may be reviewed in the manner that will be indicated.
 
To pass the course, you must get at least a 5 (out of 10) weighted average. If not, the grade of «not assessable» will be applicable only if a student has not failed any of the constituent assessment activities, except for participation.
 
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 the recovery exam, 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 this case 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
Essay 40% 4 0.16 1, 3, 2, 6, 7, 11, 10, 5, 4, 13, 12, 14, 16, 8, 15, 18, 17
Exam 50% 1.5 0.06 3, 2, 6, 11, 10, 5, 4, 13, 12, 14, 15, 18, 17
Participation 10% 2 0.08 3, 2, 6, 9, 11, 10, 5, 4, 13, 12, 14, 16, 8, 15, 17

Bibliography

Readings
A dossier of theoretical or literary texts
GUIMERÀ, Àngel, Maria Rosa, Enric Gallén (ed.), Barcelona: Castellnou, 2017.
OLLER, Narcís, L'Escanyapobres, Valls: Cossetània, 2015.

Approaches
CASSANY, Enric (dir.), Panorama crític de la literatura catalana. IV. Segle XIX, Barcelona: Vicens Vives, 2009.
CASSANY, Enric; DOMINGO, Josep M. (dir.), Literatura contemporània (I). El Vuit-cents, Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana / Barcino / Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2018.
GABRIEL, Pere (ed.), Història de la cultura catalana, vol. IV-V, Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1994-1995.
RIQUER, Martí de; COMAS, Antoni; MOLAS, Joaquim (dir.), Història de la literatura catalana, vol. VII-VIII, Barcelona: Ariel, 1986.
RIQUER I PERMANYER, Borja de (dir.), Història, política, societat i cultura dels Països Catalans, vol. VI-VII, Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1996-1997.

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
DOMINGO, Josep M.; DASCA, Maria; VERDAGUER, M. Àngels, Bibliografia sobre literatura catalana del segle XIX, Barcelona: Xarxa Temàtica de la Renaixença, 2003, continued by Carola Duran in the Anuari Verdaguer.
http://www.traces.uab.cat.

Software

No specific software.