Undergraduate Course: The Pursuit of Reality: Modern Spanish Fiction (Ordinary) (ELCH09011)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This option explores works by post-Spanish Civil War writers. The novels chosen are written in radically different styles, ranging from social realism and naturalism to post-modernism and extreme experimentalism, and they probe an array of themes ¿ the conflict between the individual and society, the struggle against social norms and sexual morality, the deployment of fiction as a means of shaping both personal and national identity, and the alienating effects of modern society. Via these novels a variety of issues will be considered, such as the changing role of the novel over the twentieth century, the way novelists create an individual "voice" in dialogue with their predecessors, the function of the reader in the interpretative process, and the socio-political environment and sexual politics of reading and writing fiction. |
| Course description |
Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Ordinary and visiting students only. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | In order to be eligible to take 4th Year Options, Visiting Students should have the equivalent of at least two years of study at University level of the appropriate language(s) and culture(s). |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 4 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
196 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% Coursework
1,100-word Essay 40%
1,100-word Comparative Time Limited Take-Home Essay 60% |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate a broad understanding of the post-Civil War Spanish novel and associated literary techniques.
- Provide an accurate account of the development of the Spanish novel in the context of Spanish history, from realism to postmodernism.
- Reflect critically on the evolution of the Spanish novel based on textual evidence.
- Extract and synthesise key information about the Spanish novel from written and spoken sources.
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Reading List
El Jarama (1955): Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
Tiempo de silencio (1962): Luis Martín Santos
Últimas tardes con Teresa (1966): Juan Marsé
La verdad sobre el caso Savolta (1975): Eduardo Mendoza
El mismo mar de todos los veranos (1978): Esther Tusquets
Los santos inocentes (1981): Miguel Delibes
Soldados de Salamina (2001): Javier Cercas |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Critical thinking, communication skills, cultural understanding |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Jose Saval
Tel: (0131 6)50 3677
Email: Jose.Saval@ed.ac.uk |
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