First semester
This course belongs to the area of specific studies and is theoretical-practical in nature. It will compare two paradigms of tragedy in literature: the formation of the concept in Ancient Greece (Aeschylus and Sophocles) and its updating in the works of William Shakespeare.
This course belongs to the area of specific studies and is theoretical and practical in nature. It is based on the premise that the consolidation of Italian as a literary language cannot be understood without considering Dante Alighieri and Francesco Petrarch. This module will examine both the achievements of their major poetic works and their ideas regarding the vernacular.
This course in the area of specific studies is both theoretical and practical. It will examine how the 16th and 17th centuries were particularly prolific for Spanish literature. The module will explore the historical, political, and social reasons for this flourishing and offer an overview of two key genres: lyric poetry, with Garcilaso, Saint John of the Cross, and Góngora, and drama, with Lope de Vega and Calderón.
This course in the area of specific studies is both theoretical and practical. It will analyze how German Romanticism initiated a revolution in the sensibility and aesthetics inherited from classicism, a revolution that continued into the 20th century with the avant-garde movements, especially in lyric poetry. The module will study this process, which encompasses several literatures (German, English, French) and periods: Romanticism, Parnassianism, and Symbolism.
This course belongs to the area of specific studies and is theoretical and practical in nature. In order to understand the novel as a heterogeneous product, this module will examine some of the most representative works. Thus, with the guidance of various specialists, we will discuss Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, and The Metamorphosis by Kafka.
Second semester
This course belongs to the area of specific studies and is theoretical and practical in nature. It will cover some literary works from China.
This course belongs to the area of specific studies and is theoretical-practical in nature. It will examine, through the reading and analysis of a representative work, the main trends in 20th-century Latin American narrative: neofantastic short stories, indigenism, neorealism, magical realism, etc.
This course belongs to the area of specific studies and is theoretical-practical in nature. It will discuss the transversal and historical characteristics of the epic, with special attention to the element of the hero, through the reading and commentary of Homeric poems, chansons de geste, and medieval European sagas.
This course in the area of specific studies is both theoretical and practical. It will analyze how German Romanticism initiated a revolution in the sensibility and aesthetics inherited from classicism, a revolution that continued into the 20th century with the avant-garde movements, especially in lyric poetry. The module will study this process, which encompasses several literatures (German, English, French) and periods: Romanticism, Parnassianism, and Symbolism.
