SP4014 Spanish Avant-garde(s)

2023 to 2024 Semester 1

Curricular information may be subject to change

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Prof J Larios

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Module Staff

Prof J Larios

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Module description

This module will examine the concepts of 'modernity', 'modernism' and the 'avant-garde' in the context of Spanish culture in the 1920s and 1930s; it will contextualise JosÚ Ortega y Gasset's reflections on 'new art' or 'dehumanised art'; it will take stock of Ortega's theory of the novel; it will explore the critique of Western values and the celebration of desire in the work of surrealist poets; it will analyse representations of the life (vitalism)/ reason (rationalism) dichotomy in the work of fiction writers; and it will look at the use of the 'mythical method' by those very same writers.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS SP2002

Co-requisites

COMPULSORY MODULES FOR SINGLE AND MAJOR SPANISH PROGRAMMES

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment