SJ0B776 New Spain and Mexican Literature

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Eva Lukavská, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Milada Malá, Ph.D.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 15:50–17:25 G25
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to: understand and explain the basic history of mexican literature and analyse and comment the representative texts written from the 16th to the 20the centuries;
Syllabus
  • 1. Chroniclers of the 16th century (Bernardino de Sahagún) 2. Baroque poet (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Carlos Siguenza y Góngora, Matís de Bocanegra); 3. Period of Independence (Servando Teresa de Mier, Fernández de Lizardi); 4. Mexican romanticism (Salvador García Bahamonte, Manuel Altamirano, Justo Sierra o´Reilly, Vicente Riva Palacio, Manuel Payno, José María Roa Bárcena); 5. Mexican realism and naturalism (Emilio Rebasa, Federico Gamboa, Justo Sierra); 6. Mexican modernism (Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Amado Nervo); 7. Mexican Revolution (Mariano Azuela), El Ateneo (Alfonso Reyes); 8. The New narrativ prose and the "boom" of the Latin American Novel (Agustín Yánez, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes); 9. Mexican essay (Octavio Paz. Carlos Monsiváis); 10. Mexican New Wave (José Agustín, Gustavo Sainz);
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Carballo. Emanuel, Estudios sobre la novela mexicana, México, UNAM - Universidad de Colima, 1988.
  • John S. Brushwood, La novela mexicana (1967-1982). Colección enlace Grijalbo. México-Barcelona-Buenos Aires. México, D. F. 1984.
  • Fuentes, Carlos, La nueva novela hispanoamericana, México, 1969.
  • Martínez, José Luis, La literatura mexicana del siglo XX. México, CONALCUTA,1995.
    not specified
  • Jiménez Rueda, Julio, Letras mexicanas del siglo XIX. México, FCE, 1943.
  • Brushwood, John S., Ensayo literario mexicano. México, UNAM - Universidad Veracruzana, Edit. Aldus, 2001.
  • Bruswood, John S., México en su novela. México, FCE, 1973.
  • Leonard, Irving A., La época barroca en el México colonial. México, FCE, 1986.
Teaching methods
seminar, class discussion, reading
Assessment methods
colloqium
Language of instruction
Spanish
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Minimální počet studentů: 5
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016.
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