Spanish Literature I (contemporary Spanish narrative, conducted in Polish)

obligatory courses

none

Classroom

Spanish literature 1 is an obligatory course for the first year students of the BA studies. It offers an introduction to the contemporary Spanish narrative and includes reading and discussion of selected Spanish novelists, with particular attention to the dramatic cultural, social and political changes brought by the Transition period from dictatorship to the democratic regime, as well as to diverse memory politics /poetics and encoded gender issues; conducted in Polish.

Spanish literature 1 is an obligatory course for the first year students of the BA studies. It offers an introduction to the contemporary Spanish narrative and includes reading and discussion of selected Spanish novelists, with particular attention to the dramatic cultural, social and political changes brought by the Transition period from dictatorship to the democratic regime, as well as to diverse memory politics /poetics and encoded gender issues; conducted in Polish.

During the course students will analyze canonical and non-canonical literary texts produced by contemporary Spanish authors using basic notions of poetics and narratology.

Basic literature (translation of Spanish literary texts into Polish)

1. "Rodzina Pascuala Duarte", Camilo José Cela;

2. "Złuda", Carmen Laforet (fragmenty);

3. "Ul", Camilo José Cela (fragment);

4. "Pięć godzin z Mariem", Miguel Delibes (fragmenty);

5. " "Zostawiam ci w zamian morze, kochanie", Carme Riera;

6. "Serce tak białe", Javier Marías

7. "Miłość, ciekawość, prozac i wątpliwości", Lucía Etxebarria

8. "Żołnierze spod Salaminy", Javier Cercas (cz. 1 i 3);

9. Uśpiony głos, Dulce Chacón (fragmenty)

10. "Patria", Fernando Aramburu (fragmenty);.

11. Głosy Pamano (framenty), Wyznaję (fragmenty), Jaume Cabré

12. Najat El Hachmi, Ostatni patriarcha

13. "Łzy w deszczu", Rosa Montero (fragmenty); Królowa Południa (fragmenty), Arturo Pérez-Reverte

14. Współczesna proza hiszpańska, Magda Potok (fragment).

Baczyńska, Beata. Historia literatury hiszpańskiej. Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2014

Gracia, Jordi, Ródenas, Domingo, Historia de la literatura española. 7, Derrota y restitución de la modernidad 1939-2010. Madrid: Crítica, 2011.

Potok, Magda, Współczesna proza hiszpańska. Studia. Poznan: Wydawnictwa Naukowe UAM, 2016

Potok, Magda, Arcydzieła literatury hiszpańskiej: dziesięć wykładów. Poznan: Wydawnictwa Naukowe UAM, 2016

Sanz Villanueva, Santos Historia de la literatura española. [T. 6/2], El Siglo XX: literatura actual. Barcelona: Ariel, 1994

Villanueva, Darío, et. al. Los nuevos nombres: 1975-1990; vol. 9 de Historia y crítica de la literatura española, dir. por Francisco Rico, Barcelona, Crítica, 1992.

-knowledge of basic literary Spanish texts and notions related to Spanish contemporary literary history (K_W02, K_W03, K_W04);

- basic knowledge of the position of Spanish literature as an academic discipline and its specificity in terms of field of investigation and methodology

(K_W02, K_W03, K_W04, K_W11);

- capacity to analyze a selected narrative text written by a Spanish contemporary author and to present arguments in accordance with the adapted methodology and cultural knowledge (K_U03);

- consciousness of the importance of conserving cultural heritage of the Spanish speaking countries (K_K06).

Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

- complying with requirements of reading obligatory literature

- systematic and active participation in class

- final oral exam