16th Century Spanish Literature
Code: 100624 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2504386 English and Spanish Studies | OB | 2 |
| 2504388 Catalan and Spanish Studies | OB | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Laura Fernandez Garcia
- Email:
- laura.fernandez.garcia@uab.cat
Teachers
- Bienvenido Morros Mestres
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
By obtaining the minimum of credits in basic training subjects, students have demonstrated to have acquired the basic competences and they will be able to express themselves orally and in writing.
For this reason, any spelling and expression errors that may be committed will lead to a score decrease in the final grade.
Activities, practical sessions and papers submitted 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.
Any submission of non-original material without properly indicating its origin will automatically result in a failure rating (0).
It is also expected that students know the general rules of submission of an academic work. However, students could apply the specific rules that the teacher of the subject may indicate to them, if they deem it necessary.
Objectives and Contextualisation
"Spanish Literature of the XVI Century" is part of the 108 credits of compulsory education, core training, integrated into the subject of Spanish medieval and Golden Age literature, attached to the second year of the Degree in Spanish Language and Literature.
The subject offers a specific vision of Spanish literature of the sixteenth century, first of the so-called Golden Centuries.Special attention will be paid to the description and development of the main genres of this century of Spanish literature, its literary and aesthetic currents, focusing on the reading and analysis of some of the fundamental texts of this stage, with their respective subperiods (first and second Renaissance), movements or trends; the innovations, usually imported from Italy, the survival of popular tradition, in poetry and theater; the new narrative genres, fiction and thought (dialogue, epistle, essay). The history of the concepts of Humanism and Renaissance in historiography will also be explained. The new Philology: Nebrija and Luis Vives. The formation of the writer: his readings. The dramatic genres until Lope de Vega: eclogues, humanistic comedies, entremeses and tragedies. The prose: the narrative genres. Sentimental, chivalry, pastoral and adventure books. Non fiction prose: epistles, dialogues and orationes.
Competences
- English and Spanish Studies
- Critically analyse linguistic, literary and cultural production in English and Spanish, applying the techniques and methods of critical editing and digital processing.
- Develop arguments applicable to the fields of literature, culture, literary theory, language and linguistics, in Spanish and English, and evaluate their academic relevance.
- Recognize the most significant periods, traditions, trends, authors and works of literature in English and Spanish languages in their historical and social context
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Catalan and Spanish Studies
- 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.
Learning Outcomes
- Characterise literary phenomena taking into account the different levels of analysis.
- Critically interpret literary works take into account the relationships between different areas of literature and its relationships with human, artistic and social areas.
- Know the periods of Medieval and Golden Age literature (16th-17th centuries) in all their genres, trends, tendencies and most representative authors.
- Recognise the different types of poetry (lyric, narrative, song, Italianate, etc.) and their metrical forms.
- Recognise the forms of prose (brachylogy and paremiologic, popular or cultured, fiction (sentimental, chivalrous, pastoral, Moorish, Byzantine, picaresque, etc.) and thought (epistle, chronicle, dialogue, essay, prayer, etc.) and their evolution throughout the two periods.
- Recognise the theatrical forms: religious, pastoral, tragic and the so-called New Comedy.
- Use the appropriate terminology in the construction of an academic text and in the transmission of their knowledge.
Content
1.The main genres of Renaissance Spanish literature
1.1. Poetry, theater and prose. Tradition and modernity
2 The theater
2.1.The survival of the tradition. Compulsory reading: Juan del Encina, Égloga de Plácida y Vitoriano
2.2. The origins of the humanist theater: Baertolomé de Torres Naharro
2.3. The origins and diffusion of the commercial theater: Lope de Rueda and Juan Timoneda
2.4. The Tragedy. Juan de la Cueva and Miguel de Cervantes
3. Poetry
3.1. Traditional and Italian-style poetry
3.2. Garcilaso de la Vega and Petrarchism. Cetina and Aldana. Compulsory reading: Garcilaso de la Vega
3.3.The poetry of fray Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz and Santa Teresa de Jesús
4. Prose
4.1. The idealist fiction and its genres. Compulsory reading: Jorge de Montemayor, La Diana
4.2. The so-called realistic fiction. The Lazarillo de Tormes and its projection until Don Quixote de la Mancha
4.3. The prose of thought. The dialogue, the epistle, the essay, the chronicle, the orationes... Compulsory reading: Juan de Valdés, Diálogo de la lengua
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Master classes | 52.5 | 2.1 | |
| Students' autonomous workload | 75 | 3 | |
| Supervised Activities | 18 | 0.72 |
The learning of this subject by the students is distributed as follows:
Directed activities (35%). These activities are divided into master classes and seminars and classroom practices led by the faculty, in which theoretical explanation is combined with discussion of all types of texts.
Supervised activities (10%). These tutorials are programmed by the teacher, dedicated to correcting and commenting on problems at different levels of literary analysis.
Autonomous activities (50%). These activities include both time devoted to individual study and production of papers and analytical comments written, as well as oral presentations.
Evaluation activities (5%). The evaluation of the subject will be carried out through written tests.
Activities
Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Type: Directed
Master classes 52,5 2,1 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 7, 8
Autonomous activity 18 0,72 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 7, 8
Programmed tutorials 75 3 2, 4, 7, 8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exams, essays and class attendance | 4.5 | 4.5 | 0.18 | 1, 3, 7, 2, 4, 5, 6 |
At the end of the semester, knowledge of the topics and the indicated readings will be evaluated, requiring an assimilation of the subject equivalent to the content in the reference manuals.
- The final grade will be obtained from the grade of two exams, which will be averaged with a monographic work, plus 10% of attendance and participation in class.
- The written exams will serve to evaluate the theoretical content and will be worth 30% each of the final grade. The monographic work will be worth 30% of the final grade. Attendance and participation in class will be valued at 10%.
- The minimum score that will be required to consider each of the activities as passed will be equal to or greater than 5. To participate in the recovery process, the teacher may require the student to have obtained a final average grade of 3.5. The final work is not recoverable.
- At the time of carrying out each evaluation activity, the teacher will inform the students of the procedure and date for reviewing the grades.
- The subject will be considered "Not evaluable" when the student does not carry out any of the activities. The elaboration of an activity supposes, thus, the will of the student to be evaluated in the subject and, therefore, their presentation to the evaluation.
- Making mistakes in spelling, vocabulary and syntax will have a penalty on the final grade of the activities of 0.25 for each of the made mistakes.
- Obviously, the works must be original and the total or partial copy of materials already published in any medium is not allowed. In cases where it can be shown that the student has committed an act of plagiarism, the grade for the corresponding activity will be 0.
- Likewise, the student who performs any irregularity that maylead to a significant variation in the grade of an evaluable activity will obtain a grade of 0 in that activity and it will not be recoverable, regardless of the disciplinary process that may result from those actions. If there are several irregularities in the evaluable activities of the same subject, the final grade will be 0.
Single evaluation: the delivery and realization of the three evaluable tests may coincide with the last test of the group, or with one of the possible days that the Faculty has enabled. The evaluation will be based on two assignments, which will represent 60% of the grade (30% + 30%, thus compensating for class attendance), and a final test, which will count 40%. Students who choose this option will have the same conditions for grade review and recovery that have already been explained.
Bibliography
General
Dresden, S, Humanismo y Renacimiento, Madrid, Guadarrama, 1968.
Garin, Eugenio, La revolución cultural del Renacimiento, Barcelona, Crítica, 1981.
Klein-Chastel, El humanismo, Barcelona, Salvat, 1970.
Martín Abad, Julián, Los primeros años de la imprenta en España (c. 1471-1520), Laberinto, Madrid, 2003.
Rico, Francisco, El sueño del humanismo, Barcelona, Destino, 2002.
Manuals
Gómez, Jesús, El diálogo renacentista, Laberinto, Madrid, 2002.
Huerta, Javier, El teatro breve en la Edad de Oro, Laberinto, Madrid, 2000.
*Jones, R. O., Historia de la literatura española, 2, Siglo de Oro: prosa y poesía, Ariel, Barcelona, 1974.
Mainer, José Carlos, Historia de la literatura espanyola, 2: García López, Jorge, Eugenia Fosalba y Gonzalo Pontón, La Conquista del clasicismo, 1500-1598, Barcelona, Crítica, 2010.
Pérez Priego, Miguel Ángel, El teatro del Renacimiento, Laberinto, Madrid, 2004.
Rico, Francisco, dir., Historia y Crítica de la literatura española, vol. II: Francisco López Estrada. Siglos de Oro: Renacimiento (y Primer suplemento, 1991).
Rallo, Asunción, Erasmo y la prosa renacentista en España, Laberinto, Madrid, 2002.
Ruiz Pérez, Pedro, Manual de estudios literarios de los Siglos de Oro, Castalia, Madrid, 2003.
*Wilson, E. M., y D. Moir, Historia de la literatura española, 3: Siglo de Oro: teatro, Ariel, Barcelona, 1974
Obligatory readings
Encina, Juan del, Égloga de Plácida y Vitoriano, en Teatro completo, ed. Miguel Ángel Pérez Priego, Madrid, Cátedra, 1991.
-------, --------, Teatro, ed. Alberto del Río, Barcelona, Crítica, 2001
Montemayor, Jorge de, La Diana, ed. Juan Montero, Crítica, Barcelona, 1996 (and reissues).
Valdés, Juan de, Diálogo de la lengua, ed. José F. Montesino, Espasa-Calpe, Madrid, 1971.
-------, ed. José Enrique Laplana, Crítica, Barcelona, 2010.
-------, ed. Lola Pons, Real Academia Española, Madrid, 2022.
Software
Word and pdf
Language list
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 2 | Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 2 | Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |