Università Roma Tre

The student will be introduced to the study of Spanish culture and literature through a critical reading of the indicated works. In particular, the course aims to explore the constant and changing presence between eras and literary genres of the binomial love / death by reading, commenting and analyzing some canonical texts of Spanish literature.

EXPECTED LEARNING RESULTS
A) Historical-literary and cultural skills
The Spanish culture of the Siglo de Oro (poetry and theater)
Spanish culture between romanticism and modernism (poetry, theater and prose)
Spanish culture in the vanguard era (poetry and theater)
Evolutionary lines of the Spanish company
Roles and functions of men and women in Spanish society (evolution)

B) Thematic skills
Love and death in a tragicomic key
Love and death in a tragic key
Love and death in a romantic key
Love and death in a decadentist key

C) Methodological skills
Approach methodologies to social and cultural phenomena
Approach methodologies to literary phenomena
Methodological bases for the analysis of the literary text (thematic and formal approach)

• F. de Rojas, La Celestina, introduction by C. Samonà, Milan, BUR (mandatory edition);
• Garcilaso de la Vega, Egloga I, made available by the teachers;
• Federico García Lorca, Nozze di sangue, edition E. Pittarello, Venice, Marsilio (compulsory edition)
• Short anthology of poems from classicism to the generation of 27, made available by the teachers;
• Brief anthology on the figures of Don Giovanni from the origins to modernist decadentism (extracts from Tirso de Molina, José de Espronceda, José Zorrilla, Ramón del Valle-Inclán), made available by the teachers