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Reception and Innovation in Catalan Literature

Code: 45498 ECTS Credits: 5
2025/2026
Degree Type Year
Advanced Studies in Catalan Language and Literature OP 1

Contact

Name:
Francesc Xavier Vall Solaz
Email:
francesc.vall@uab.cat

Teachers

(External) Anna Alberni Jordà

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

None,


Objectives and Contextualisation

Understand the construction of a movement, in relation to tradition.

Link literary movements and their reception to their respective historical contexts.

Recognize the peculiarities of assimilation and recreation.


Learning Outcomes

  1. CA06 (Competence) Produce articles, monographs, reports and dissemination materials on the reception of other literatures in Catalan literature.
  2. CA07 (Competence) Devise research or cultural dissemination activities to promote understanding of the relationship between Catalan literature and other literary traditions.
  3. CA07 (Competence) Devise research or cultural dissemination activities to promote understanding of the relationship between Catalan literature and other literary traditions.
  4. CA08 (Competence) Produce studies on the cultural, historical, social and gender factors that condition the configuration of literary tradition and canon.
  5. CA08 (Competence) Produce studies on the cultural, historical, social and gender factors that condition the configuration of literary tradition and canon.
  6. KA07 (Knowledge) Relate Catalan literary works from all periods with authors, works and currents of the Western canon.
  7. KA08 (Knowledge) Identify the main periods and cultural and literary movements of Western literature until the twenty-first century.
  8. KA09 (Knowledge) Recognise the main forms of receiving, assimilating and recreating one's own and others' literary traditions in Catalan literature of all periods.
  9. KA09 (Knowledge) Recognise the main forms of receiving, assimilating and recreating one's own and others' literary traditions in Catalan literature of all periods.
  10. SA11 (Skill) Analyse authors, works and movements of Catalan literature from all periods, taking into account their relationship with other literatures.
  11. SA12 (Skill) Apply historical analysis methods to the study of the reception of authors from the Western canon in Catalan literature.
  12. SA13 (Skill) Interpret works, authors and movements of Catalan literature from all periods in their historical context.
  13. SA13 (Skill) Interpret works, authors and movements of Catalan literature from all periods in their historical context.

Content

Block 1: Medieval Catalan poetry and its Romance models

 1. Medieval lyric and the genre-system: Romance context

 2. The heritage of the troubadours in Catalan poetry: themes, form, language

 3. The grammar of poetry and courtesy

 4. The female voice: from the trobairitz to the Reina de Mallorca

 5. The manuscript tradition: verbal text and musical text

 6. Guillaume de Machaut and the French musical fashion

7. Dante and the dolce stil novo,

8. Reception and innovation in the XIV-XV centuries

9. Gilabert de Pròixida

10. Andreu Febrer

11. Jordi de Sant Jordi

12. Ausiàs March

Block 2: Catalan Literatura and existentialism

1. Comparative methodology
 

2. Existential philosophy and existentialism

3. Historical conditions

4. Ways of propagation

5. Evolution of the incidence

6. Presence in other fields

7. Literary studies

8. Essay

9. Poetry

10. Narrative

11. Theatre

12. Manuel de Pedrolo

13. Maria Aurèlia Capmany


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Theoretical classes and discussion 35 1.4 KA07, KA08, KA09, SA11, SA12, SA13, KA07
Type: Supervised      
Oral or writing commentary 30 1.2 CA07, CA08, CA07
Type: Autonomous      
Documentation, reading and study 30 1.2 KA07, KA08, KA09, SA11, SA12, SA13, KA07

Flipped classroom.

Explanations of the historical context, cultural trends and the most relevant aspects of genres, authors and works.

Analysis and discussion of problematic issues and texts.

Tutorials.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Essay of the block 1 25% 10 0.4 CA06, CA08, KA07, KA08, KA09, SA11, SA12, SA13
Essay of the block 2 25% 10 0.4 CA06, CA08, KA07, KA08, KA09, SA11, SA12, SA13
Participation in the block 1 (attendance will be determined in accordance with the presence established by the regulations and will be worth 15% of the course grade) 25% 5 0.2 CA07, CA08, KA07, KA08, KA09, SA11, SA12, SA13
Participation in the block 2 (attendance will be determined in accordance with the presence established by the regulations and will be worth 15% of the course grade) 25% 5 0.2 CA06, CA07, CA08, KA07, KA08, KA09, SA11, SA12, SA13

The assessment activities and deadlines will be particularised in class. In addition, this information will be posted on the Virtual Campus (at least the part relating to the UAB), as well as the grades of assessment activities, which may be reviewed in the manner that will be indicated.
 
The grade of «not assessable» will be applicable if a student has not delivered more than 30% of the constituent assessment activities.
 
In accordance with UAB regulations, «in the event of a student committingany irregularity that may lead to a significant variationin the grade awarded to an assessment activity [copying, plagiarism,impersonation...], the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject».
 
The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is not permitted. Including AI-generated fragments in any work will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may result in a partial or total penalty in the grade of the activity, or greater sanctions in serious cases.
 
Activities in which irregularities have been committed cannot be recovered, nor participation, in continuous assessment, and, in the unique assessment, text comments.
 
The students that have obtain a subject grade at least of 3.5 and, in the continuous assessment, completed, at the minimum, 2/3 of the percentage of the assessment activities, and, in the unique assessment, all of this, have the right to recovery.
 
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken on site, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
 
Unique evaluation

Commentaries of texts of block 1 (25%)

Commentaries of texts of block 2 (25%)

Essay of block 1 (25%)

Essay of block 2 (25%)

The recovery and review procedures will be those of the continuous assessment.

Bibliography

Block 1: Medieval Catalan poetry and its Romanesque models

1.1. Required readings

Dossier of texts La poesia catalana medieval i els seus models romànics.

1.2. Reference works: editions, studies, manuals

Badia, Lola, Poesia catalana del segle XIV. Edició i estudi del Cançoneret de Ripoll, Barcelona: Quaderns Crema, 1983.

Cabré, Lluís; Marcel Ortín, «Lectura de la poesia d’Ausiàs March», Lola Badia (dir.), Història de la Literatura Catalana. Literatura medieval (II), Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana / Editorial Barcino / Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2014, p. 371-397.

Cabré, Miriam, «La lírica d’arrel trobadoresca», Lola Badia (dir.), Història de la Literatura Catalana, Literatura medieval (I), Dels orígens al segle XV, Barcelona: Enciclopèdia catalana / Editorial Barcino / Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2013, p. 219-296.

Di Girolamo, Costanzo, «L’eredità dei trovatori in Catalogna», Filologia Antica e Moderna, 9 (1995), p. 7-21.

Di Girolamo, Costanzo, «La versification catalane médiévale entre innovation et conservation de ses modèles occitans», Revue des Langues Romanes, 107 (2003), p. 41-74.

Dronke, Peter, La lírica en la Edad Media, Barcelona: Ariel, 1995.

Febrer, Andreu, Poesies, edition by Martí de Riquer, Barcelona: Barcino (ENC), 1951.

Sant Jordi, Jordi de, Poesies, critical edition by Aniello Fratta, Barcelona: Barcino (ENC), 2005.

March, Ausiàs, Poesies, edition by Pere Bohigas, reviewed by Amadeu-J. Soberanas i Noemí Espinàs, Barcelona: Barcino (ENC), 2005 (first edition1959).

March, Ausiàs, Per haver d’amor vida, ed. Francesc J. Gómez i Josep Pujol, Barcelona: Barcino, 2008.

March, Ausiàs, Un male strano. Poesie d’amore. A cura di Cèlia Nadal Pasqual e Pietro Cataldi, Torino: Einaudi, 2020.

Pagès, Amédée, La poésie française en Catalogne du XIIIe siècle à la fin du XVe, Toulouse/Paris: Privat/Didier, 1936.

Próixita, Gilabert, Poesies, edició de Martí de Riquer, Barcelona: Barcino (ENC), 1954.

Riquer, Martí de., Història de la literatura catalana. Part antiga, Barcelona: Ariel, vol. I-IV, 1964.

Riquer, Martí de, Los trovadores. Historia literaria y textos, 3 vol, Barcelona: Planeta,  1975.

Riquer, Martí de i Lola Badia, Les poesies de Jordi de Sant Jordi: cavaller valencià del segle XV, València: Tres i Quatre, 1984.

 

 Bloc 2: Catalan literature and existentialism

2.1. Required readings

Dossier of texts (the Catalan translation by M. A. Capmany of L'existentialisme est un humanisme, by Jean-Paul Sartre, and fragments of other essays by foreign authors and various examples of the incidence of this trend in Catalan culture, particularly in  literature and, especially, in the writers highlighted in the syllabus).

Sartre, Jean-Paul, Huisclos (original or translation by Manuel de Pedrolo). There are several representations of it on the Internet.

Camus, Albert, L’étranger (original or translation by Joan Fuster).

 Pedrolo, Manuel de,  «La mà contra l’horitzó», Novel·les curtes. II. 1956-1958, Barcelona: Edicions 62, 19882, p. 237-346.

—, «Homes i No» Homes i No. Cruma, prologue and editon by Antoni Carbonell, Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2011, p. 77-144 / Teatre 1. 1954-1958, Barcelona, Edicions 62, 1999, p. 171-230.

http://www.catedramariustorres.udl.cat/materials/biblioteca/visor2.php?tipus=cont&autor=pedr004&codi=3453&ordre=edicio

Representation: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/altres-programes-darxiu/arxiu-tve-catalunya-lletres-catalanes-homes-no/2699759

Capmany, Maria Aurèlia, «El temps passa sobre un mirall», Obra completa 4. Narrativa breu, edition by Guillem-Jordi Graells, Barcelona: Columna, 1996, p. 77-82.

—, «El desert dels dies», Obra completa 5. Teatre, edition by Guillem-Jordi Graells, Barcelona: Columna, 1998, p. 89-130.

2.2.  Reference works

Bou, Enric (dir.), Panorama crític de la literatura catalana.VI. SegleXX.De lapostguerra a l’actualitat, Barcelona: Vicens Vives, 2009.

Broch, Àlex (dir.), Diccionari de la literatura catalana, Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2008. https://www.enciclopedia.cat.

Bou, Enric (dir.), Panorama crític de la literatura catalana. VI. Segle XX. De la postguerra a l’actualitat, Barcelona: Vicens Vives, 2009.

Castellanos, Jordi; Marrugat, Jordi (dir.), Història de la literatura catalana. Volum VII. Literatura contemporània (III). Del 1922 al 1959, Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana / Barcino / Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2021.

Gabriel, Pere (dir.), Història de la cultura catalana, vol. X, Barcelona: Edicions 62, p. 1998.

Molas, Joaquim (dir.), Història de la literatura catalana, vol. X-XI, Barcelona: Ariel, 1987-1988.

Riquer i Permanyer, Borja (dir.), Història, política, societat i cultura dels Països Catalans, vol. X-XI, Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1997-1998.

Samsó, Joan, La cultura catalana: entre la clandestinitat i la represa pública, vol. I-II, Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 1994.

https://traces.uab.cat

Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Any Manuel de Pedrolo, https://cultura.gencat.cat/ca/temes/commemoracions/2018/anymanueldepedrolo/inici/index.html.

Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Any Maria Aurèlia Capmany, https://cultura.gencat.cat/ca/temes/commemoracions/2018/anymariaaureliacapmany/inici.

2.3. Panoramic approaches to the subject

Gallén, Enric, «Notes sobre la introducció de l’existencialisme. Sartre i el teatre a Barcelona (1948-1950)», Els Marges, 26 (1982), p.120-126. http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Marges/article/view/108229/157838.

Vall, Xavier, ««L’existencialisme en la literatura catalana durant el franquisme», Catalonia, 7 (2010), p. 1-7. https://journals.openedition.org/catalonia/7125.


Software

No specific software,


Groups and Languages

Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(TEm) Theory (master) 1 Catalan first semester afternoon