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Course title:
Latin-American language and literature II B
Module:
U - Latin-American language and literature II B
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Year of degree course:
second
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| Attività frontale: Lectures: |
30.0 |
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| Esercitazioni: Applied activities: |
0.0 |
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| Studio individuale: Individual work: |
95.0 |
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| Attività didattica a piccoli gruppi: Group work: |
0.0 |
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| Seminari: Seminars: |
0.0 |
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| Laboratori: Laboratories: |
0.0 |
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| TOTALE (voci sopra-elencate): TOTAL: |
125.0 |
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| Ore di lezione settimanali: |
3.0 |
Prerequisites:
None
Educational goals:
By analysing lyric and narrative texts, the course aims to reconstruct the origin, development and conclusion of the gaucho genre in the Latin-American literature of the nineteenth century. Through the analysis and contextual setting of the works of the authors referred to below, a study will be made of the evolution of a literary genre peculiar to the Cono Sur, centred on the figure of the gaucho, the cowboy of the pampas who, during the course of the 1800s, became the emblem of the national Argentinian and Uruguayan culture. Adopting the most important and popular lyric and narrative works, a study will be made of both the particular aesthetic and stylistic aspects of gaucho literature (through Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Modernism) and the role played by the gauchos in the historical and political events that marked the independence and the troubled post-colonial phase of the countries of the Cono Sur.
Course contents:
The authors and the texts dealt with will be the following: Alonso Carrió de la Vandera, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (chap. I and II), Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1985. Bartolomé Hidalgo, "Cielitos" and "Diálogos patrióticos" in Poesía gauchesca, Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1987. Esteban Echeverria, ?El matadero? in El matadero y La cautiva, Catedra, 1997. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Civilización y barbarie. Vida de Juan Facundo Quiroga (chap. I and II), Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1985. Hilario Ascasubi, ?Paulino Lucero?, in Poesía gauchesca, Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1987. Estanislao del Campo, ?Fausto?, Poesía gauchesca, Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1987. José Hernández, El Gaucho Martín Fierro. La ida (canti I, III, VI, VIII, IX), Castalia, 1994. Lucio Mansilla, Una excursión a los indios ranqueles (chap. IV, XV-XVI, XX-XXI), Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1984. Ricardo Güiraldes, Don Segundo Sombra (chap. II, VIII and XV), Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1983.
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Teaching activities:
Lectures with the reading, translation and stylistic analysis of the above-mentioned texts. Use of audiovisual material.
Assessment:
oral
Assessment of the knowledge of the topics studied, the authors and the above-mentioned texts that are read and commented on during lectures.
Teaching language:
Italian
Other information:
The course will be held in the second semester. Students who have difficulty obtaining the material referred to in the bibliography or those requiring an explanation of the exam programme are kindly asked to contact the lecturer by e-mail or in the time available for meeting students, official notification of which will be given. The works should be read in the original language and may be integrated with Italian translations, if available.