Spanish Literature II

obligatory courses

Speaking Spanish at the intermediate level; familiarity with basic concepts of literary theory studies in the synchronous, diachronic and comparative approach.

Classroom

These classes will be devoted to history of Spanish lyric from the tenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century, and will concentrate on an analysis of selected works that are considered to be most representative of the Spanish medieval, Renaissance and baroque eras, and then from romantic liric poetry, through the modernist turn (Generation ’98) will embrace the most important trends in the twentieth and twenty-first-century poetic works (the Generation of ’27 and contemporary poetry).

The course constitutes a survey of the dominant trends and conventions present in Spanish lyric poetry, and can be divided into three thematic blocks corresponding to particular eras taken chronologically. The first of these embraces the beginnings of traditional lyric poetry in the Iberian peninsula, late medieval poems of Jorge Manrique, Renaissance court poetry and mystic poetry, as well as baroque aesthetics such as culteranismo and conceptismo in liric poetry. The second block is centred round Romanticism and the modernist turn (the Generation of ’98), which are considered essenial for modern poetry. The final segment is devoted to the twentieth and twenty-first-century liric poetry, with particular emphasis on the works of the Genereation of ’27, then post-war poetry, up until the contemporary poetic works and song lyrics analyzed as lyric poetry variation. The purpose of the course is to present the principal changes in Spanish literaturę that took place over the centuries, and to acquaint students with key texts from Spanish lyric poetry and to develop their abilities in interpreting, analysing and understanding the structure of literary works in verse which had a considerable influence on Iberian culture and on European culture as a whole.

Topics of individual classes:

1. Arte mayor and arte menor - the eternal dualism. Introduction to the medieval lyric of the Iberian peninsula (the Andalusian kharja, the traditional Castilian lyric: the villancico and zéjel, romanceros, and the learned poetry of clerics)

2. Jorge Manrique, "Coplas a la muerte de su padre"

3. The Renaissance court poetry and (Garcilaso de la Vega, Fray Luis de León)

4. Mystic poetry (St John of the Cross and St Teresa)

5. Baroque poetry: culteranismo (Luis de Góngora)

6. Conceptismo in baroque poetry (Francisco de Quevedo)

7. Pre-Romanticism and romantic poetry in Spanish literature (José de Espronceda, "El estudiante de Salamanca" (excerpts), Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro)

8. Modernist turn: the Generation of ’98. (Juan Ramón Jiménez, Antonio Machado)

9. The Generation of ’27

10. Federico García Lorca: "Romancero gitano", "Poeta en Nueva York"

11. The post-war poetry (among others Claudio Rodriguez, José Hierro)

12. Contemporary Spanish poetry (among others Juan Manuel Romero, Teresa Soto)

13. Song lyrics as an example of poetic text (Rosalía, El mal querer) and phenomenon of Instapoetry

Bibliography:

Antología de la Generación del 27, (1997), red. Esperanza Ortega, Madrid, Grupo Anaya.

Antología de la poesía romántica, (1996), red. Manuel Altolaguirre, Mardid, Espasa-Calpe,

Baczyńska, Beata, (2014), Historia literatury hiszpańskiej, Warszawa, PWN.

Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo, (1980), Rimas y leyendas, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe,

Castro, Rosalía de, (1972) Obras comletas, recopilación y estudio biobibliográfico „Rosalía de Castro el dolor de vivir” de Victoriano Garcia Marti, Madrid, Aguilar.

Castro, Rosalía de, (1998), Cantares gallegos, red. Ricardo Carballo Calero, Madrid, Cátedra.

Centros de gravedad. Poesía española en el siglo XXI (Una antología), ed. de José Andújar Almansa, Valencia, Pre-Textos, La Cruz del Sur, 2018.

Claudio Rodríguez, Francisko Brines, José Hierro, José Ángel Valente, Ángel González. Cinco poeta españoles contemporáneos: pięciu współczesnych poetów hiszpańskich, (1997), tłum. Maria Filipowicz-Rudek, Carlos Marrodán Casas, Warszawa, Instytut Cervantesa, Wydawnictwo Małe.

Espronceda, José de, (1978), El estudiante de Salamanca, ed. de José Moreno Villa, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe.

Friedrich, Hugo, (1959), Estructura de la lírica moderna. De Baudelaire a nuestros días. Barcelona, Seix Barral.

Friedrich, Hugo, (1978), Struktura nowoczesnej liryki, Warszawa, PIW.

García de la Concha, Víctor, (1992), La poesia española de 1935 a 1975, Vol.I. De la preguerra a los años oscuros, 1935-1944, Madrid, Cátedra.

García de la Concha, Víctor, (1992), La poesía española de 1935 a 1975, Vol.II De la poesía existencial a la poesía social 1944-1950, Madrid, Cátedra.

García López, José, (1959), Historia de la literatura española, New York, Las Americas Publishing Company.

García Lorca, Federico, (1992), Romancero cygańskie=Romancero gitano, tłum. Irena Kuran-Bogucka, Gdynia, "Mitel".

García Lorca, Federico, (2000), Poema del cante jondo. Romancero gitano, ed. de Allen Josephs y Juan Caballero, Madrid, Cátedra.

García Lorca, Federico, (2017), Poeta en Nueva York, ed. de María Clementa Millán, madrid, Cátedra.

Góngora, Luis de, (1991), Poesía selecta, ed. de Antonio Pérez Lasheras y José María Micó, Madrid, Taurus.

Jiménez, Juan Ramón, (1957), Sonetos espirituales: (1914-1915), ed. Ricardo Gullón, Madrid, Afrodisio Aguado.

Jiménez, Juan Ramón, (1958), Antolojía poética, Buenos Aires, Editorial Losada.

Jiménez, Juan Ramón, (2002), Poezje, red. Janusz Strasburger, tłum. Agnieszka Dzisiewska, Warszawa, Anagram.

Lewis, Clive, Staples, (1974), The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature, cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Lewis, Clive Staples, (2008), Odrzucony obraz. Wprowadzenie do literatury średniowiecznej i renesansowej, tłum. Witold Ostrowski, Kraków, Znak.

Machado, Antonio, (1979), Poesías completas, prólogo de Manuel Alvar, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe.

Machado, Antonio, (2005), Poezje, tłum. Janusz Strasburger, Kraków, Miniatura.

Manrique, Jorge, (1979), Poesía, Madrid, Cátedra.

Poesía española: ensayo de métodos y límites estilísticos: Garcilaso, Fray Luis de León, San Juan de la Cruz, Góngora, Lope de Vega, Quevedo, (1962) ed. de Dámaso Alonso, Madrid, Gredos.

Poesías castellanas completas, (1979), ed. de Elias L. Rivers, Madrid, Editorial Castalia.

Poetas españoles de la Generación del 27, (1977), T.1, T.2, red. Francisco M. Mota, La Habana, Editorial Arte y Literatura.

Quevedo, Francisco de, (1989), Poemas escogidos, ed., intr. y notas de José Manuel Blecua, Madrid, Editirial Castalia.

Romero, Juan Manuel, (2014), Desaparecer, Valencia, Pre-Textos.

Rosalía, album El mal querer (2018).

San Juan de la Cruz (1997), Poesía, ed. de Domingo Ynduráin, Madrid, Cátedra.

Santa Teresa de Jesús (1990), Poesías y Exclamaciones, Barcelona, Ediciones 29.

Teresa Soto, (2008), Un poemario, Madrid, Ediciones Rialp.

Urrutia Jorge, (1982), Antonio Machado y Juan Ramón Jiménez: la superación del Modernismo, Madrid, Editorial Cincel.

Knowledge:

Participants know basic methods of analyzing Spanish-language poetry works and have a rudimentary knowledge of the periods in Spanish literature, of the trends, conventions and themes occurring in Spanish lyric and epic poetry, form the Middle Ages, up until the contemporary poetry. They know terminology related to the sturcture of poetry, metric and stylistic analysis. They will also be acquainted with the most important writers representative of their respective eras, as well as with their most significant works. They will be able to place them within the broader literary, historical and cultural context. (K_W02, K_ W03, K_W04, K_W05)

Academic Skills:

Students read and understand Spanish language poetry and are capable of assigning a given text to the appropriate period, and of indicating features corresponding to the intellectual climate of the time. They will be versed in the literary genres, especially lyric. They will be able to distinguish between the aesthetics prevailing in respective epochs, and to characterize such aesthetic currents and trends as mystic poetry, culteranismo and conceptismo. Students will carry out analysis and interpretation of texts, using basic terminology and appropriate methods, and possessing the ability to argue in a reasoned manner, and in full appreciaion of the multidimensional character of works of literature.(K_U01, K_U02, K_U03, K_U04, K_U05, K_U06, K_U07)

Social skills:

Participants are capable of critical assessment of their own knowledge and understands the need for continuous improvement and development. They will select and organize the information they gain, being able to systematize and critically assess its content. They also organize work, develop their entrepreneurship, team collaboration and compliance with professional ethics. Students are capable of active participation in the Spanish culture and of keeping informed about contemporary phenomena occurring in the Spanish poetry. (K_K01, K_K02, K_K03, K_K04)

Teaching methods:

• Flipped classroom

• Jigsaw classroom technique

• Presentation

• Discussion

• Introductory lecture

Assessment criteria:

Seminar participants will be assessed on the basis of attendance (there are 2 absences allowed), active participation in classes, and a concluding written exam.

Details concerning assessment will be given during classes.