Spanish Literature - University of Kent

PROPOSAL TO RESTRUCTURE EXISTING COURSE
SPANISH LITERATURE: EXILE
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Title of new module:
Spanish Literature: Exile
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Level: Part II
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Number of units: One
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Pre-requisites and co-requisites:
None.
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Target intake: 10-20
Hours of study: 120
Staff-students contact hours: 33 hours
11 Lectures
11 2-hour tutorials
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Module rationale:
This module constitutes half of the current two-unit course LS508 Spanish Literature:
Censorship and Exile.
Aims and objectives:
This module aims to explore the literature of Spanish exiles after the Civil War as a
complement to other modules which focus on the literture and culture available within
Spain throughout this period.
Contribution to programme objectives:
This module will help to provide a broader understanding of the development of Spanish
literature and culture in the 20th century by focussing on the work of those writers who
were cut off from their native country, continued to feel a strong attachment to it, and
were eventually officialy incorporated into the canon after the end of Franco’s regime.
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Module organisation and content:
The module will, in general terms, move from a general consideration of ‘exile’ literature
to the analysis of specific texts as illustrations of different personal responses to the same
period of exile
Main Topics
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The experience of exile. Is there a literature of exile?
The historical background to the Spanish exile after 1936.
Reflections of Spain in the work of Spanish exiles.
Reflections of the New World in the work of Spanish exiles
Exile as a theme in the works of Spanish exiles
Teaching methods:
Lectures will be used to provide general historical and theoretical background, to
establish a framework within which the set texts can be studied, and to focus attention on
different levels of discourse on the subject of exile and how the same experience can be
interpreted in different ways. The seminars will allow students to explore and question
some of the general principles raised in the lectures and to test their ideas and views
through detailed analysis of the set texts and any other relevant material. As a means of
structuing work in the seminars, individual students will be set specific task (e.g.
outlining a set of ideas and providing a personal response, providing a commentary on a
text,etc.) while others will be asked to prepare responses to specific aspects of the
presentation.
Skills acquired by students:
Ability to: extract essential information from oral presentations (lectures and seminar
presentations of other students); analyse and respond to written texts, both critical and
literary; conduct individual research using available resources (library, Internet, course
materials); organise ideas and express them in a logical and convincing manner (orally
and in writing).
Contribution to students’ achievement of the module objectives:
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Module’s assessment:
Written assignments (2 essays): 20%; Written examination: 80%
Module’s examination methods and requirements:
End of year examination including text analysis and essay writing.
Contribution to students’ learning:
The contribution to students’ learning will be on four different levels:
1. Conceptual:
New understanding the concept of exile as a personal, literary
and political experience
2. Cultural:
Deeper insights into one of the most important and defining
experiences in Modern Spanish Society
3. Academic:
Acquisition of enhanced research and study skills
4. Communicative. Ability to organise and present informationboth orally and in
writing.
Contribution to testing the achievement of the module’s objectives:
Class contributions and written assignments will provide evidence of students’ progress
during the course. Student evaluation and external examination of final examination.
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Required and recommended reading:
Cano Ballesta, Juan. La poesía española entre la pureza y la revolución. Madrid: Siglo
XXI, 1996.
Holt, Marion P. "Twentieth Century Spanish Theatre and the Canon(s)." Anales de la
Literatura Española Contemporánea 17 (1992): 47-54.
José María Naharro-Calderon, ed. El exilio de las Españas de 1939 en las Américas:
«¿Adónde fue la canción?», Barcelona: Anthropos, 1991.
--- ‘"Donde habit[a] el olvido:" Falacias críticas y caídas poéticas en el exilio de la
"posguerra"’ Anales de la Literatura Española Contemporánea 18 (1993): 59-68.
Moeller, Hans-Bernhard Latin America and the Literature of Exile, Heidelberg: Carl
Winter Universitätsverlag, 1983.
Nora, Eugenio de. La novela española contemporánea. 3 vols. Madrid: Gredos, 1962.
Palomo, María Del Pilar. La poesía en el siglo XX (desde 1939). Madrid: Taurus, 1988.
Ruiz Ramón, Francisco. Historia del teatro español. Siglo XX. Madrid: Cátedra, 1992.
Thomas, Garet. The Novel of the Spanish Civil War (1939-1975). Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1996)
Ugarte, Michael. "Luis Cernuda and the Politics of Exile." Modern Language Notes 101
(1987): 325-41.
---. Shifting Ground. Spanish Civil War Exile Literature. Durham and London: Duke
University Press, 1989.
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Student feedback:
How student feedback will be sought:
Students will be encouraged to comment on the progress of the course as it is being
taught and to make a final written evaluation using Faculty Student Evaluation Forms.
How it will be used:
Issues relating to individual modules will be discussed at Section Meetings each term and
a programme review will take place at the end the academic
How it will be reported to staff and students:
Staff-Student Committee Meetings
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Evidence of all resource requirements (including suitably qualified teaching staff):
Teaching staff:
Teaching cost:
Library cost:
Departmental cost
Total:
Dr F.Lough is suitably qualified and willing to undertake the
teaching of this course.
None. Teaching already being done as part of LS508
None
None.
None