Linguistic, Literary and Translation Studies

The course aims at illustrating the evolutionary trajectory of contemporary Spanish poetry. From the poetry of the resistance, born in the Franco era, to the Novísimos, from the lively debate of the transition to the most recent trends, the course offers a picture of the generational groups, ideas and aesthetic currents that form the canon of contemporary Spanish poetry. To consolidate the rhetorical-linguistic and critical-interpretative analysis tools of the literary text, it proposes an anthology of poetic texts belonging to some of the major Spanish poets (Dámaso Alonso, Gabriel Celaya, Blas de Otero, José Hierro, Pablo García Baena, Ricardo Molina, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Ángel González, María Victoria Atencia, Guillermo Carnero, Antonio Colinas, Clara Janés, Luis García Montero, José Antonio González Iglesias, Aurora Luque), from the post-war period to the present day.

The student has to be able to critically analyse a literary text. He should have good competence in the Spanish language and master the principles of text analysis. He also has to demonstrate a good argumentative ability and be able to contextualize and analyse cultural phenomena.

Lecture notes by the teacher (Anthology of contemporary Spanish poets) --A. Marchese, L'officina della poesia, Milano, Mondadori, 1997. --G. Morelli, D. Manera, Letteratura spagnola del Novecento. Dal Modernismo al postmoderno, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2007. --Remedios Sánchez, Así que pasen treinta años…Historia interna de la poesía española contemporánea (1950-2017), Madrid, Akal, 2018.

Attendance is strongly recommended.

Oral exame. It will be attributed a grade in /30 on the basis of the ability demonstrated by the examiner to coherently expose the expected topics, to correctly articulate the reasoning and to carry out the textual analysis with rigour and critical ability.

Teaching Methods The course is organised in frontal lessons relying on the analysis and commentary of literary texts. After the reconstruction of the historical-literary context, the texts are examined in depth on a rhetorical-linguistic and critical-interpretative level.