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| Unit name |
Gender and Identity in Spanish Theatre: From the Golden Age to Romanticism |
| Unit code |
HISP31027 |
| Credit points |
20 |
| Level of study |
H/6
|
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
|
| Unit director |
Dr. Kitts |
| Open unit status |
Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None
|
| Co-requisites |
None
|
| School/department |
Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
| Faculty |
Faculty of Arts |
Description including Unit Aims
This unit explores the changing ideas on gender and identity - personal, social, class, cultural, national - in Spanish theatre from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth centuries. After initial discussion of the key concepts of gender and identity, a selection of six to eight plays will be considered in terms of their contemporary social and intellectual context and their dramatisation and questioning of issues relating to a variety of aspects of gender and identity.
Aims:
- To introduce students to a significant body of knowledge of a complexity appropriate to final year level. The content matter will normally include one or more of the following: literature; social, cultural or political history; linguistics; cultural studies; film, television or other media.
- To facilitate students engagement with a body of literature, including secondary literature, texts, including in non-print media, primary sources and ideas as a basis for their own analysis and development. Normally many or most of these sources will be in a language other than English and will enhance the development of their linguistic skills.
- To develop further skills of synthesis, analysis and independent research, building on the skills acquired in units at level I.
- To equip students with the skills to undertake postgraduate study in a relevant field.
Intended Learning Outcomes
Successful students will:
- be knowledgable about a significant cultural, historical or linguistic subject related to the language they are studying;
- will have advanced skills in the selection and synthesis of relevant material;
- be able to evaluate and analyse relevant material from a significant body of source materials, usually in a foreign language, at an advanced level;
- be able to respond to questions or problems by presenting their independent judgements in an appropriate style and at an advanced level of complexity;
- be able to transfer these skills to other working environments, including postgraduate study.
Teaching Information
1 weekly lecture hour and 1 weekly seminar hour.
Assessment Information
1 x 3000 word essay (50% of mark) and one two-hour examination (50% of mark). Testing ILO's 1-5
Reading and References
A selection of six to eight plays will be chosen from the following (student will be informed about which ones are being studied at least a month before the unit begins through Blackboard):
- Lope de Vega, Fuenteovejuna, Peribáñez y el comendador de Ocaña
- Calderón de la Barca, La vida es sueño
- Agustín Moreto, No puede ser el guardar una mujer
- Tirso de Molina, Don Gil de las calzas verdes, La venganza de Tamar
- Ramón de la Cruz, Sainetes
- Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, El delincuente honrado
- Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, Lucrecia, Hormesinda, Guzmán el Bueno
- Vicente García de la Huerta, Raquel
- Ignacio López de Ayala, Numancia destruida
- Tomás de Iriarte, La señorita malcriada, El señorito mimado
- Leandro Fernández de Moratín, La mojigata, El sí de las niñas
- María Rosa de Gálvez, Zinda, La delirante
- Francisco Martínez de la Rosa, La conjuración de Venecia
- Mariano José de Larra, Macías
- Duque de Rivas, Don Alvaro, o la fuerza del sino
- Antonio García Gutiérrez, El trovador
- Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, Los amantes de Teruel
