Introduction and generalities
The poetry of the 17th century: Góngora, Lope de Vega, and Quevedo. Newand old models, controversies.
The text and theatrical spectacle in the 17th century
Lope de Vega's theater and the new comedy
Fiction prose: the new picaresque and/or celestinesque, pastoral genre, and Byzantine.
Cervantes: the second part of Don Quixote
Francisco de Quevedo and the prose of ideas.
Calderón de la Barca's theater
17th Century Spanish Literature
Code: 100623Credits: 6
2026/2027
| Degree programme | Type | Course |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish and Chinese Studies: Language, Literature and Culture | OB | 2 |
| English and Spanish Studies | OP | 3 |
| English and Spanish Studies | OP | 4 |
| Catalan and Spanish Studies | OP | 3 |
Contact lecturer
- Name :
- Bienvenido Morros Mestres
- Email :
- bienvenido.morros@uab.cat
Teaching staff
- Bienvenido Morros Mestres
Group languages
You can consult this information at the end of the document.
Prerequisites
By obtaining the minimum of credits in basic training subjects, students have demonstrated to have acquired the basic competences and they will be able to express themselves orally and in writing.
For this reason, any spelling and expression errors that may be committed will lead to a score decrease in the final grade.
Activities, practical sessions and papers submitted in the course must be original and under no circumstances will the total or partial plagiarism of third-party materials published on any medium be admitted. Any submission of non-original material without properly indicating its origin will automatically result in a failure rating (0).
It is also expected that students know the general rules of submission of an academic work. However, students could apply the specific rules that the teacher of the subject may indicate to them, if they deem it necessary.
Objectives
The specific and formative objectives of the subject are:
- Knowing and interpreting the 17th century authors and literary texts.
- Applying the knowledge acquired from the literary production environment (textual transmission, scenographic resources, audience, oral culture, living circumstances of the authors, historical and political circumstances, etc.) to the analysis of literary texts and to a specific text.
- Commenting fragments of texts or texts of the main literary genres and subgenres of the seventeenth century in Spain.
- Identifying the presence of classical or foreign poetic traditions in Spanish literary texts.
- Identifying the presence of previous Spanish literary traditions in seventeenth century Spanish literary texts.
- Identifying the presence of seventeenth century literary texts in later texts of Spanish or foreign literature.
- Analyzing and identifying the presence of aesthetic criteria in the historical evaluation of seventeenth century Spanish literature.
Learning outcomes
- Use the adequate terminology in the construction of an academic text.
- Identify and analyse the main characteristic of Spanish literary genres from the seventeenth century.
- Contextualise the production of seventeenth century Spanish literature from an ideological and social viewpoint.
- Relate the literary aspects of different works of seventeenth century Spanish literature.
- Comment on a seventeenth century text with figures of thought and expression.
- Select and gather together the basic critical biography for the field of study with the main works and authors for the subject.
- Make literary predictions and inferences about the content of a text.
- Use the appropriate terminology in the construction of an academic text and in the transmission of their knowledge.
- Use traditional sources to obtain, classify, interpret and analyse relevant data related to the study of Spanish language and literature.
- Comment on literary texts from different periods.
- "Recognise the historical-literary series from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 17th century, so that continuity can be established between the different literary genres and their projection; for example, traditional lyric poetry in the work of Lope de Vega, or medieval storytelling in Cervantes."
- Characterise literary phenomena taking into account the different levels of analysis.
- Comment on literary texts, apply the acquired tools and take into account the historical and sociocultural context.
- Apply the tools and know consult the specific documentary sources.
- Use traditional sources to obtain, classify, interpret and analyse relevant data related to the study of Spanish language and literature.
Contents
REQUIRED READINGS
Miguel de Cervantes:
Segunda parte de don Quijote, ed. Francisco Rico, Madrid, Alfaguara, 2004
Lope de Vega:
-El perro del hortelano, ed. Mauro Armiño, Cátedra, Madrid, 2001.
-Andrés Fernández de Andrada, Epístola moral a Fabio, ed. D. Alonso, estudio preliminar Juan F. Alcina y Francisco Rico, Editorial Crítica (Biblioteca Clásica, 58), Barcelona, 1993. Reedición en RAE-Galaxia Gutemberg-Círculo de lectores, Barcelona, 2014.
Luis de Góngora:
Antología poética, ed. Antonio Carreira, Madrid, Auistral, 2015
Francisco de Quevedo:
Huye la hora. Antología poética, eds. Fernando Plata y Adrián J. Sáez, Madrid, Cátedra, 2025.
Calderón de la Barca, La vida es sueño, ed. Fausta Antonucci, Madrid, Cátedra, 2025..
Learning activities and methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Study personally and prepare teams and comment on analytics | 75 | 3 | 2, 3, 4, 5 |
| Tutoring | 12 | 0.48 | 2, 3, 4, 5 |
| Master classes and practical sessions | 60 | 2.4 | 2, 3, 4, 5 |
The learning time of this subject by the students is approximately distributed as follows:
- Directed activities (35%). These activities are divided into master classes and seminars and classroom practices led by the faculty, in which theoretical explanation is combined with discussion of all types of texts.
- Supervised activities (10%). These tutorials are programmed by the teacher, dedicated to correcting and commenting on problems at different levels of literary analysis.
- Autonomous activities (45%). These activities include both time devoted to individual study and production of reviews, papers and analytical comments written, as well as oral presentations.
- Evaluation activities (10%). The evaluation of the subject will be carried out through written tests.
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
Continuous assessment activities
| Title | Weight | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Written activity on required readings 2 | 30 % | 1 | 0.04 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 |
| Written activity on required readings 1 | 30% | 1 | 0.04 | 2, 3, 4, 5 |
| Theoretical-practical exam | 40% | 1 | 0.04 | 2, 3, 4, 5 |
Continuous assessment
The final grade for the subject will be obtained through the following partial grades (their value in the final grade is indicated in parentheses):
1) Written activity on compulsory readings 1 (30%): The activity will be carried out in class.
2) Written activity on compulsory readings 2 (30%): The activity will be carried out in class.
3) Theoretical-practical exam (40): Test on the course syllabus.
In the event that the student carries out any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade of an assessment act, this assessment act will be graded with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that may be instructed. In the event that several irregularities occur in the assessment acts of the same subject, the final grade for this subject will be 0. Those assessment acts in which there have been irregularities (copying, unauthorized use of AI, etc.) are not recoverable.
In this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is not allowed in any of its phases. Any work that includes fragments generated with AI will be considered a lack of academic honesty and will result in the activity being evaluated with a 0 and not being recoverable, or major sanctions in serious cases.
At the time of carrying out each assessment activity, the teacher will inform the students of the procedure and date of review of the grades.
The review of the tests will be carried out in an interview previously agreed with the teacher.
To pass the subject, it is necessary to obtain, at least, a 5 in the weighted average of the assessment activities.
Students who do not achieve this grade and who have previously been assessed for at least two-thirds of the subject may participate in the retake, provided that they have obtained a minimum average grade of 3.5. The grade obtained in the retake will replace the grade initially obtained for the final calculation of the weighted average.
The student will receive the grade of non-assessable when they have not completed more than 30% of the assessment activities.
Single assessment
Students who have opted for this assessment method must submit and carry out the following assessment activities on the day determined in the assessment calendar that will be made public during the first week of the course.
1) Written activity on compulsory readings 1 (30%).
2) Written activity on compulsory readings 2 (30%).
3) Theoretical-practical exam (40).
The student may retake the course if they have completed all three activities and have an overall grade equal to or greater than 3.5. The result of the retake test will replace the grade of the failed test to calculate the final grade for the subject.
Erasmus students who request to advance an exam must present the teacher with a written document from their home university justifying their request.
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Bibliography
REFERENCE MANUALS
Jones, R. O., Historia de la literatura española, 2, Siglo de Oro: prosa y poesía, Ariel, Barcelona, 1974.
Rico, Francisco, dir., Historia y Crítica de la literatura española, Crítica, Barcelona, 1980-
----, vol. II: Francisco López Estrada. Siglos de Oro: Renacimiento (y Primer suplemento, 1991);
----, Vol. III: Bruce W. Wardropper. Siglos de Oro: Barroco (y Primer suplemento, editado por Aurora Egido, 1992).
Ruiz Pérez, Pedro, Manual de estudios literarios de los Siglos de Oro, Castalia, Madrid, 2003.
Wilson, E. M., y D. Moir, Historia de la literatura española, 3: Siglo de Oro: teatro, Ariel, Barcelona, 1974.
ESPECIALLY RELEVANT MANUALS
Arellano, Ignacio, Historia del teatro español del siglo XVII, Cátedra, Madrid, 1995.
Huerta Calvo, Javier, dir., Historia del teatro español, vol. I, Gredos, Madrid, 2003.
López Bueno, Begoña, La poética cultista de Herreraa Góngora, Alfar, Sevilla, 1987. Reed. 2000.
López Bueno, Begoña, coord., La renovación poética del Renacimento al Barroco, Síntesis, Madrid, 1996.
Pedraza Jiménez, Felipe B., Manual de Literatura Española: Vol. 3, El Barroco: Introducción, Prosa, Poesía, Cénlit Ediciones, Navarra, 1998.
Pedraza Jiménez, Felipe B., Manual de Literatura Española: Vol. 4, El Barroco: Teatro, Cénlit Ediciones, Navarra, 1981.
Ruiz Pérez, Pedro, Historia de la literatura española, dir. J.C. Mainer, vol. 3: El siglo del arte nuevo (1598-1691), Crítica, Barcelona, 2010.
INSTRUMENTAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
-ABOUT THE HISTORICAL PERIOD
Elliott, John H., España y su mundo, Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1990. Reed. Madrid, Taurus, 2007. García Cárcel, R., Historia de España, siglos XVI y XVII: La España de los Austrias, Madrid, Cátedra, 2003. Lynch, J., Edad moderna: crisis y recuperación, 1598-1808, Barcelona, Crítica, 2005.
-FOR THE COMMENTARY OF TEXTS
Azaustre, Antonio, y J. Casas Rigall, Manual de retórica española, Madrid, Ariel, 1997. Baehr, Rudolf, Manual de versificación española, Madrid, Gredos, 1969. Reed. 1973. Díez Borque, J. Ma, Comentarios de textos literarios (teoría y prácticas), Madrid, Playor, 1977.
Software
No specific program is necessary.
Course groups and languages
The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE