2023

Spanish Literature and Arts

Name: Spanish Literature and Arts
Code: LLT13511L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Literature

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, Spanish
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

The curricular unit aims to obtain the basic historiographic and critical notions to know the Spanish Literature of the Silver Age in its different genres, through the analysis of the relations with the world of the arts: painting, drawing, music, cinema.

Contents

Literature and Arts in the Silver Age
- The concept of the Silver Age.
- Modernism and Symbolism: Juan Ramón Jiménez, Manuel Machado and painting.
The Generation of '98 and the poetics of the landscape.
- Poetics of the Vanguard: Picasso, Juan Gris and literary Cubism; Ramón Gómez de la Serna and the Ismos; Ultraism and Creationism and the plastic arts.
- The Generation of 27 in the dialogue between literature, art, music and cinema: Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti, Gerardo Diego, Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel.

Teaching Methods

- Lectures
- Reading and critical review of texts
- Discussion with the students
Assessment follows the norms of the University and the Department Regulations. It is preferably continuous (2 tests or 1 test and project/essay – in any situation each is worth 50%). Students can also sit exam – 100%.
To follow continuous assessment 8 is the minimum compulsory mark in any of the moments.
The pass mark is 10 in both regimes.

Teaching Staff