Modern Spanish Literature

This module will run in Epiphany Term 2011-12

About this module

This module is open to students who are taking Spanish Language 4 and is designed to develop understanding of contemporary Spanish culture and skills of critical analysis. Selected literary texts produced in Spain since the 1960s are studied in relation to cultural, historical and theoretical contexts, and issues of war, collective memory, social change, gender, sexuality and language. 

Teaching and Learning

There are two weekly lectures and a weekly small-group seminar. Classes are in English and Spanish.  Assessment is in English.

Summative Assessment

• 2000-word summative essay (40%)
• two-hour written examination (60%). 

Set Texts

• Buero Vallejo, Antonio, 2005, El tragaluz, Colección Austral 302 (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe). ISBN 9788423998593
• Delibes, Miguel, 2002, Cinco horas con Mario, Clásicos Contemporáneos Comentados, ed. Antonio Vilanova (Barcelona: Destino). ISBN 9788423325153
• Muñoz Molina, Antonio (2005), Beatus Ille. Barcelona: Seix Barral. ISBN 9788432216923
• Pedrero, Paloma, 1999, Juego de noches: nueve obras en un acto, Letras Hispánicas 490 (Madrid: Cátedra). ISBN 9788437617459
• Montero, Rosa, 2010, Temblor (Barcelona: Seix Barral). ISBN 978-84-322-5069-9. Or buy online from http://tienda.leer-e.es/es/buscador?texto=temblor
• Rossetti, Ana, 1996, Poems accessible online at A Media Voz [link: http://amediavoz.com/rossetti.htm]

Co-ordinator:

Dr Michael Thompson (m.p.thompson@durham.ac.uk), room A10, Elvet Riverside I.