SPANISH LITERATURE II

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0026

Academic Year of enrolment:

2020

Year of supply:

2021/2022

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in MODERN LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURES

Disciplinary Sector:

Spanish Literature

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

COPPOLA LEONARDO

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

114

Prerequisites:

Good knowledge of the Spanish language and the Spanish literary history.
The exam of Letteratura spagnola I, for the Cds LM-37, must be taken before this one.

Objectives

MAIN TARGETS
The main target of the course is to give the student a complete picture of Alonso de Santos’s dramaturgical production inserted in the panorama of the contemporary Spanish theater, with the direct reading of some works, with the benefit of critical and monographic studies. Another target is to give the opportune baggage of methodology and specific terminology, necessary to the analysis of the literary text.

EXPECTED LEARNING RESULTS
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
- Offer a general vision, as an introductory context, of the history of Spanish theater of the twentieth century, in its own development and, above all, in the main dramatic themes of the second half of the 20th century.
- Know the evolution of the historical-social and cultural stages that have characterized the Spanish panorama after the Civil War and the theatrical production of the second half of the 20th century.
- Be able to analyze in a critical way a dramatic text in terms of content, language and in its historical-socio-political context.
- Express judgments on the topics dealt with, on the thinking of the authors, evaluating them in a synchronic and diachronic perspective, as well as comparing them with the rest of European literary production.

Contents

The course, starting from an initial presentation of the historical-political coordinates of the artistic-literary period of the twentieth century in Spain, will focus on the dramatic production of the second half of the century. A series of very significant texts regarding social criticism, despotic repression, historical memory and civil commitment will be read and commented on, with particular interest in social changes, themes that depict the panorama of Spanish theater from the end of the Civil War to the decade of the years '90, with projections towards the most recent authors.

Extended Syllabus

The course will focus on the dramatic production of the second half of the 20th century. A series of highly representative texts depicting the panorama of Spanish theater from the dictatorial repression to the decade of the 1990s will be read and commented on, with projections to the most recent authors. From the theatrical "Posibilismo-imposibilismo" of the dramatic work of the authors of the resistance (1960-1975), such as Antonio Buero Vallejo and Alfonso Sastre, we will move on to the Spanish dramatic scene of the years 1975-2010. The lens will focus on the political and dramaturgical circumstances of the long democratic transition (1975-1982), on the new trends that, starting from 1982, will characterize the crisis of the “independent” theater and the emergence of the “alternative”, “commercial and experimental” one. From the theory and writing of Alonso de Santos (La estanquera de Vallecas), the value of the historical memory of representative authors such as José Sanchis Sinisterra (¡Ay, Carmela!) and Fernando Fernán Gómez will be analyzed (Las bicicletas son para el verano), and then closed with the "teatro de la memoria" and "de las ideas" by Juan Mayorga (El jardín quemado and El cartógrafo).

Recommended Bibliography

SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ruiz Ramón, Francisco, Historia del teatro español: siglo XX, Madrid, Cátedra (cap. 7-11)
Pérez Rasilla, E., “El teatro desde 1975”, in Javier Huerta Calvo (dir.), Historia del teatro español, Gredos, Madrid, 2003, vol. II, pp. 2855-2883.
Anabel García Martínez. El telón de la memoria. La Guerra Civil y el franquismo en el teatro español actual, Hildesheim, Georg Olms Verlag, (2016) (pp. 251-296; 313-332; 357-363).
Floeck, Wilfried: “El teatro actual en España y Portugal en el contexto de la postmodernidad”, Iberoamericana IV, 14 (2004), pp. 47-67.
Wilfried Floeck/Ana García Martínez, “Memoria y olvido entre bastidores: Guerra Civil y franquismo en el teatro español después de 1975”, Escribir después de la dictadura: la producción literaria y cultural en las posdictaduras de Europa e Hispanoamérica. - (Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana; v. 143), 2011, pp. 97-120.
Feldman, Sharon G. “El teatro de la época democrática”. España Siglo XXI. Dir. Salustiano del Campo i José Félix Tezanos. Vol. V: Literatura y bellas artes. Ed. Francisco Rico, Jordi Gracia i Antonio Bonet. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, Fundación Sistema, and Instituto de España, 2009, pp. 135-169.
Manuel Pérez Jiménez, “Teatro español actual e historiografía teatral”, Estudios humanísticos. Filología, 38 (2016), pp. 51-78.
Pascual Gálvez Remírez, “Buero Vallejo: la tragedia esperanzadora del teatro”, en Veinte años de teatro y democracia en España (1975-1995), Manuel Aznar Soler (coord.), Cía Investigadora de Teatro Español Contemporáneo (CITEC), 1996, pp. 59-70.
José Ramón López García, “Los veranos perdidos de Fernando Fernán Gómez”, en Veinte años de teatro y democracia en España (1975-1995), Manuel Aznar Soler (coord.), Cía Investigadora de Teatro Español Contemporáneo (CITEC), 1996, 103-110.
Mónica Martínez Bernabeu, “La taberna fantástica, de Alfonso Sastre” en Veinte años de teatro y democracia en España (1975-1995), Manuel Aznar Soler (coord.), Cía Investigadora de Teatro Español Contemporáneo (CITEC), 1996, pp. 143-148.
Paco, M. de, “El teatro de Alfonso Sastre en la sociedad española” [1996], consultabile on-line nella Biblioteca Cervantes Virtual.
Barrera Benítez, M., “El teatro de Juan Mayorga”, Acotaciones: revista de investigación teatral, núm. 7, 2001, pp. 73-94.
Aznar Soler, Manuel. «Teatro, política y memoria en El jardín quemado, de Juan Mayorga». Anales de la literatura española contemporánea, Vol. 31, Núm. 2 (2006): 79‒118.
Manuel Aznar Soler, “La recepción crítica del estreno de Himmelweg, de Juan Mayorga, en Madrid”, Caracol, 12 (2016), pp. 180-205.

LITERARY TEXTS
The student must read the integral version of 6 of the works in the list. The following are mandatory: one at the student's discretion between a) and b), one chosen by f) and one between g) and h).
a) Antonio Buero Vallejo, El concierto de San Ovidio. El tragaluz, edición de Ricardo Doménech. Madrid, Castalia, Clásicos Castalia, 1987
b) Antonio Buero Vallejo, La fundación, edición de Javier Díez de Revenga, Madrid, Austral, 2010
c) Alfonso Sastre, La taberna fantastica; Tragedia fantastica de la gitana Celestina, edición de Mariano de Paco, Madrid, Cátedra, 2000
d) José Luis Alonso de Santos, La estanquera de Vallecas; La sombra del Tenorio, edición, introducción y notas de Andrés Amorós. - 2. ed, Madrid, Castalia, 2010
e) Fernando Fernán Gómez, Las bicicletas son para el verano, edición de Francisco Gutiérrez Carbajo, Madrid, Cátedra, 2010
f) José Sanchis Sinisterra, Ay, Carmela! o El lector por horas, edición de Eduardo Perez-Rasilla, Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 2000
g) Juan Mayorga, El jardín quemado, prólogo de Virtudes Serrano. Murcia, Universidad de Murcia, Antología Teatral Española, 2001.
h) Juan Mayorga, El cartógrafo, con un ensayo de Alberto Sucasas, Segovia, La uña rota ediciones, 2017.

The teacher will provide the student with a selection of monographic studies and texts that are difficult to find.

Teaching Methods

Frontal lessons.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

There’s a final oral exam, in order to verify the knowledge of the treated matters, the clarity of the student's oral exposure, as well as the ability to return a critical reading of the literary texts examinated.The exam will be taken in Spanish language and the evaluation will be expressed in thirtieths.

Contacts/More Information

The attendance at the course is optional. There’s not an alternative programme for non attending students.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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