Spanish Current literature
Code: 100085 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2502758 Humanities | OT | 3 |
| 2502758 Humanities | OT | 4 |
Contact
- Name:
- Fernando Valls Guzman
- Email:
- fernando.valls@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
Since the student has demonstrated, by obtaining the credits corresponding to the basic and compulsory subjects, having acquired the basic competences, he must be able to express himself orally and in writing.
In the case of written expression, it is understood that the student writes paragraphs with full content. Obviously, spelling errors, punctuation and speech structure will be taken into account. The faults will deduct 0.25 points each.
The activities, practices and works presented in the course must be original and under no circumstances will the total or partial plagiarism of third-party materials published on any medium be admitted. The student must explicitly explain, according to the uses of the bibliographic documentation, the authorship of all the citations and the use of third-party materials. The eventual presentation of non-original material without properly indicating its origin, will automatically carry the grade of suspense (0).
It is also considered that the student knows the general rules of presentation of an academic work. However, you can apply the specific rules that the teacher of the subject may indicate to you, if you deem it necessary.
Objectives and Contextualisation
It is intended to offer an overview of what has been the development of Spanish literature, in the different narrative genres (novels, short stories and short stories), from the years of the democratic transition to the present day (1975-2019). We will therefore study the configuration of the various essential aesthetic and literary movements of the period, from realism, in its various meanings, to the fantastic and the grotesque; the reception in Spain of foreign narrative and the emergence of a type of pan-Hispanic writer who transgresses national borders.
The purpose of the course is for students to acquire a general knowledge of the different literary strategies of the period, and to become familiar with the most representative authors and works of these four decades. For this, they will exercise in the analysis and comment of texts, always having as a background the literary, social and political history of this period. The students, in addition, must have handled the most important bibliography of the period, the manuals, the editions of the texts, as well as the most relevant anthologies and studies that are cited in the bibliography or have been recommended by the teacher in the classes.
Competences
- Humanities
- Critically analysing today's culture and its historical conditions.
- Designing, producing, disseminating and commercializing a cultural product.
- Interpreting social and cultural diversity.
- Properly using the resources and methodologies of the study of contemporary culture.
- Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
Learning Outcomes
- Analysing literary texts using different concepts and methods of comparative literature.
- Describing the characteristics of a literary text and the characteristic methods of analysis of the discipline.
- Explaining the basic characteristics of literary texts.
- Identifying and explaining the basic structures of literary works.
- Identifying various literary elements and inserting them into different texts and discursive styles.
- Interpreting the regulatory information that is located in the web pages of regulatory institutions.
- Preparing a summary from a given text.
- Solving problems related to the study of different literatures.
- Solving tasks about authors, methods and currents of the comparative literature.
- Using suitable terminology when drawing up an academic text.
Content
TEMARY
1. Del fin de la dictadura a los inicios de la democracia: los años de la Transición.
2. Posmodernidad, globalización, multiculturalismo y memoria histórica en la época de las culturas.
3. Una nueva generación literaria: Eduardo Mendoza, Luis Mateo Díez, José María Merino, Álvaro Pombo, Luis Landero, Juan José Millás, Javier Marías, Enrique Vila-Matas, Rafael Chirbes, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Rosa Montero, Julio Llamazares, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Almudena Grandes, Antonio Soler y otros.
4. El renacimiento del cuento.
5. El surgimiento de un nuevo género narrativo. El microrrelato.
6. La aceleración de la historia. De la caída del Muro de Berlín (1989) y el 11-S (2001) a la crisis económica (2008) y sus consecuencias.
7. Los nuevos nombres: Fernando Aramburu, Juan Bonilla, Clara Usón, Eduardo Lago, Ángel Zapata, Andrés Ibáñez, Eloy Tizón, Pilar Adón, Marta Sanz, Isaac Rosa, Ricardo Menéndez Salmón, Berta Vías Mahou, Lara Moreno, Elvira Navarro, Cristina Morales, Marina Perezagua y Raúl Quinto.
Los narradores trasatlánticos: Roberto Bolaño, Rodrigo Fresán, Jordi Soler y Andrés Neuman.
8. Los superventas o el arte de llamar la atención.
COMPULSORY READINGS
. Fernando Valls, ed., Mar de pirañas. Nuevas voces del microrrelato español, Menoscuarto, Palencia, 2012.
. Cristina Fernández Cubas, El columpio, Firmamento, Cádiz, 2023 [1995].
. Raúl Quinto, Martinete del rey sombra, Jekyll & Jill, 2023.
. Gemma Pellicer y Fernando Valls,eds., Siglo XXI. Los nuevos nombres del cuento español actual, Menoscuarto, Palencia, 2010.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Master classes and practices | 60 | 2.4 | 2, 7, 3, 10, 5 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Scheduled tutorials | 12 | 0.48 | 2, 7, 3, 10, 5 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Personal study and preparation of papers, analytical comments and exhibitions | 75 | 3 | 2, 7, 3, 10, 5 |
The learning of this subject by the student is distributed as follows:
· Directed activities. These activities are divided into lectures and seminars and practices led by the teacher, in which the theoretical explanation will be combined with the discussion of the texts.
· Supervised activities. These are tutorials programmed by the professor, dedicated to the correction and comment of problems in the different levels of literary analysis.
· Autonomous activities. These activities include both the time devoted to personal study and the performance of analytical papers and commentaries, as well as the preparation of oral presentations.
· Evaluation activities. The evaluation of the subject will be carried out through written tests and taking into account the student's contribution to the best development of the classes.
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.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delivery of comments on texts, works | 10% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 7, 3, 10, 5, 4, 6, 8, 9 |
| Participation in the commentary of the proposed readings and oral presentations | 10% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 7, 3, 10, 5, 6, 8, 9 |
| Written tests | 80% | 3 | 0.12 | 1, 2, 7, 3, 10, 5, 4, 6, 8, 9 |
The evaluation of the subject will be based on the following activities (the specific weight of each one of them is indicated in brackets in the final note):
1) Class attendance, which is mandatory, and participation in the commentary of the proposed readings and oral presentations [20%].
2) The delivery of comments of texts related to the taught subject agreed with the teacher [20%]. If this is not the case, the percentage would be added to the next section.
3) Two written tests on the subject taught during the course [30% + 30%].
4) The student may reevaluate the course in the case of suspending only one of the two or three evaluation activities indicated (assignments and exams) and have a minimum grade of 4.
5) It will be considered "not evaluable" when the student does not perform any of the activities or tests. The elaboration of an activity supposes the will of the student to be evaluated in the subject.
SINGLE ASSESSMENT
It consists of 2 exams, each worth 45% of the mark, and a paper worth 10% of the mark.
The date of delivery will be communicated to students at the beginning of the course.
The recovery will follow the same criteria as the continuous assessment.
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___, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Arco/Libros, Madrid, 2007.
___, Juan José Millás, Arco/Libros, Madrid, 2009.
___, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Arco/Libros, Madrid, 2009.
Andres-Suárez, Irene, y Antonio Rivas, eds., Javier Tomeo, Arco/Libros, Madrid, 2009.
___, Andrés Neuman, Arco/Libros, Madrid, 2014.
Andres-Suárez, Irene, El microrrelato español. Una estética de la elipsis, Menoscuarto, Palencia, 2010.
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___, “Entre sólida y líquida: la prosa narrativa española en la época de las culturas (1986-2008)”, en Jordi Gracia y Domingo Ródenas de Moya, eds., Más es más. Sociedad y cultura en la España democrática, 1986-2008, Iberoamericana/Vervuert (La casa de la riqueza, 13), Madrid, 2009, pp. 195-211.
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Software
VIRTUAL CAMPUS
Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |