Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature straniere e Culture moderne

The themesand topics covered, as well as the skills and abilities that are intended to be formed, are an essential part of the content characterizing the training course aimed at offering specific preparation in the field of Spanish literature and culture. In particular, the course aims to provide a specialist knowledge of the historical-literary framework of contemporary Spain and provide the methodological skills necessary for the critical analysis of literary texts and the ability to apply these skills to specific case studies, exemplifying contemporary Spanish narrative production, and related topics.

At the end of the course the student will have acquired the following skills:

- in-depth knowledge of twentieth-century Spanish fiction, in relation to its historical context;

- in-depth knowledge of the literary system of reference;

- capacity for comprehension, critical analysis and interpretative reading of narrative texts in Spanish;

- knowledge of narratological principles and mechanisms;

- autonomy of judgement in the contextualisation and interpretation of literary texts;

- ability to read and understand scientific essays;

- ability to rework bibliographical sources;

- ability to apply the methodologies learned to other case studies.

54 hours of in-class teaching, with live streaming via Webex platform (https://unito.webex.com/meet/barbara.greco), without registration. Supplementary material will be uploaded on the moodle platform of the course.

The exam will be based on an oral interview in Spanish aimed at verifying the knowledge of the contemporary Spanish short fiction, in relation to the historical, political and cultural context.

Students must also demonstrate to have acquired the methodological skills necessary for reading and interpreting the narrative text, have autonomy of judgment and learning and know how to argue and express the contents of the program through an appropriate language register.

SPANISH SHORT FICTION, BETWEEN EXILE, TRANSITION AND CONTEMPORANEITY

The course will be based on the study of twentieth century Spanish storytelling, considering the narrative production of the "two Spains", which includes the work of the authors of the Spanish Republican exile.

After a first part of a theoretical nature, aimed at providing the tools for the analysis of the forms of the story and the short-story, we will study the stories composed by exiled authors, such as Aub, Ayala, Chacel and Sender, taking into account both the formal aspects and the political and cultural reflections they promote.

Afterwards, we will read and critically comment on some stories published in Spain after the Transition by authors such as Mateo Díez, Luis Goytisolo, Merino and Marías and some more recently published micro-stories in which different languages, styles and themes are found.

In the last part of the course, we will examine the very recent narrative corpus "Relatos del confinamiento", which collects stories written during the period of confinement imposed by the health emergency Covid-19 (March-April 2020), as an opportunity for reflection on the processes of literary reworking of issues and themes related to the pandemic. This activity is part of the project "COVID19 - LiTraPan. Literary Training via ICT for Higher Education Improvement, Behavioural Coaching and Discomfort Management".

Through this perspective, it is intended to offer an overview of the evolution of thecontemporary Spanish short fiction and its peculiarities, formal and semantic.

The course is open to students of the UNITA - Universitats Montium partnership;

for bureaucratic and incoming mobility information for students from UNITA Alliance partner universities, please write to: unita@unito.it