Undergraduate Course: The Masters of the Spanish Novel. From the Picaresque to the 20th Century (ELCH10057)
Course Outline
School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
Summary | This course offers a panoramic survey of the development of the Spanish novel in the context of European Literature. The reading list includes some of the most iconic novels by the most acclaimed Spanish novels. The course starts with Lazarillo de Tormes, the first picaresque novel and, according to many critics, the first modern novel. Quevedo's Buscón further illustrates the social commitment of the picaresque novel but also the stylistic virtuosity of the literature of the time. Cervantes's Exemplary Novels are studied as the beginning of the short story as a genre in Spanish but also as the author's delineation of his theory of the novel. After the eighteenth century, the Spanish novel experiences a new transformation with the works of Realist authors. Galdós is regarded as Spain's second novelist (after Cervantes); Pardo Bazán is possibly Spanish best female writer. Their novels will introduce the students to the social interests of the Realist and Naturalist novels. Unamuno became the leader of a new generation of writers who, in the twentieth century, endeavoured to transform the novel by distancing themselves from Realism and its social preoccupations. Unamuno's novels exemplify all the aesthetical aspirations and the metaphisic concerns of the Modernist age. They also anticipated and perfected many techniques that would later on become the trademark of the novels of the late-twentieth-century. Nobel Laureate Cela was one of the most innovatory novelists of the second half of the twentieth century. The study of all these authors and their more paradigmatic novels will allow students to gain a panoramic insight and appreciation of Spanish literature and to understand them in the context of European literature. |
Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Additional Costs | Purchase of primary texts |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the development of the novel in Spain, from the picaresque novel in the 16th Century to the 20th Century.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the Spanish novel in the context of European literary history.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the Spanish novel in the context of Spanish and European social and political history.
- Demonstrate knowledge of literary criticism with regards the novel as a genre.
- Undertake postgraduate study on the topic of the Spanish novel.
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Reading List
Anonymous, Lazarillo de Tormes (1554). Madrid: Cátedra.
Francisco de Quevedo, Buscón (1526). Madrid: Cátedra.
Miguel de Cervantes, Novelas ejemplares (1613). Madrid: Espasa-Calpe.
Benito Pérez Galdós, Misericordia (1897). Madrid: Cátedra.
Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla (1914). Madrid: Cátedra.
Camilo José Cela, La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942). Madrid. Espasa-Calpe.
NB these titles may change from year to year. |
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Keywords | DELC Masters |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Huw Lewis
Tel: (0131 6)50 3676
Email: Huw.Lewis@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Fiona Jack
Tel: (0131 6)50 3635
Email: f.jack@ed.ac.uk |
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