Catalan Literature from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Code: 105840Credits: 6
| Degree programme | Type | Course |
|---|---|---|
| Catalan Philology: Literary Studies and Linguistics | OB | 2 |
| English and Catalan Studies | OP | 3 |
| English and Catalan Studies | OP | 4 |
| Catalan and Spanish Studies | OP | 3 |
Contact lecturer
- Name :
- Francesc Xavier Vall Solaz
- Email :
- francesc.vall@uab.cat
Group languages
You can consult this information at the end of the document.
Prerequisites
None.
Objectives
This is an optional subject for the Bachelor's Degree in Catalan and Spanish Studies, and for the Bachelor's Degree in English and Catalan Studies. However, if someone opts not to take it, he misses engaging with three crucial centuries.
As an initial university approach to Catalan literature of the 16th-18th centuries, it is a basic course, albeit complex and critical enough.
Fundamental aspects:
1. to enquire into the concept of «Decadència» and to determine the incidence of historical events on literature,
2. to examine cultural periodization (terminology, characterisation of movements, conditioning factors, models, particularities...),
3. to take note of the vitality of popular literature,
4. to highlight the main trends in poetry, theatre and prose,
5. to gain an awareness of the most representative authors and works
6. to improve text-commentary abilities.
Learning outcomes
- Write text commentaries from a critical standpoint.
- Identify principal and secondary ideas and express them using correct language.
- Identify the relationships between literature and history, art and other cultural movements.
- Comment on literary texts, using the instruments acquired, with regard to the historical, social and cultural context.
- Critically interpret literary works, taking into account the relationships between the different areas within literature and their relationship to humanistic, artistic and social areas.
- Produce normatively correct written and oral texts.
- Use technological resources (digital and audiovisual) to acquire knowledge and apply it in language and literature.
- Produce written work and oral presentations that are effective and framed in the appropriate register.
- Gain a greater capacity for reading, interpreting and critically analysing literary and linguistic texts.
- Make appropriate use of the knowledge acquired in order to collect data and handle documentary sources in the study of Catalan language and literature.
- Respect the opinions, values, behaviour and customs of others.
- Use IT tools and be able to consult specific documentary sources.
- Master oral and written expression in Catalan.
- Produce work in accordance with academic ethics.
- Describe the historical context of modern Catalan literature and relate literary works to their historical and cultural context.
- Produce critical texts on works and trends in modern Catalan literature, showing suitable mastery of concepts and methods, and write original essays, showing mastery of the relevant literature on authors and works of the modern period.
- Write historical interpretative essays on the modern Catalan literary tradition.
- Present and explain overall perspectives on phenomena of modern Catalan literature.
- Analyse literary texts from philological and comparative standpoints, apply these criteria to the study of modern-period texts and write analyses of the literary language of modern Catalan texts.
- Discern the sex/gender factor in the configuration of the literary canon.
- Identify the main and secondary ideas and express them with linguistic correctness.
- Strengthen the capacity of reading, interpretation and critical analysis of literary texts and language.
- Properly apply the knowledge gained to data collection and management of documentary sources application to the study of Catalan language and literature.
- Produce written and oral texts with correction rules.
- Maintain an attitude of respect for the opinions, values, behaviors and practices of others.
- Identify relationships between literature and history, art and other cultural movements.
- Critically interpret literary works take into account the relationships between different areas of literature and its relationships with human, artistic and social areas.
- Apply the tools and know consult the specific documentary sources.
- Contextualise historically, socially and ideologically the literary production of the Enlightenment and Romanticism.
- Produce critical texts on the works and trends of the modern Catalan literature, with the relevant conceptual and methodological domain, and write original essays, with domain of the relevant bibliography on authors and works of the modern period.
- Analyze literary texts from philological bases and comparatists apply to the study of the texts of the modern era and draft analysis of the literary language of modern Catalan texts.
- Critically interpret literary works taking into account their historical and social context.
- Write and present academic works.
- Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
- Identifying the relationships of literature with history, art or other cultural movements.
- Commenting on literary texts, applying the acquired tools and taking into account the historical and sociocultural context.
- Critically interpreting literary works taking into account the relationships between the different areas of literature and its relationships with human, artistic and social areas.
- Apply the tools and know consult the documentary sources.
- Issue rating pertinent criticism supported in understanding the relevant information on issues related to the literature and culture.
Contents
1. REVISING OF THE CONCEPT OF «DECADÈNCIA». The situation of Catalan culture, the prejudices about this period held by the historiographical tradition, the problematics of using this term, and alternatives
2. THE RENAISSANCE, THE COUNTER-REFOMATION AND MANIERISME
2.1. Poetry. Valeri Fuster, Andreu Martí Pineda, Gaspar Guerau de Montmajor, Joan Timoneda, Pere Serafí and Joan Pujol
2.2. Theatre. Bartolomé de Torres Naharro, Joan Ferrandis d'Herèdia and Joan Timoneda
2.3. Prose. Epistolary (the Borja and Estefania de Requesens), the Espill de la vida religiosa, Cristòfor Despuig and Joan Timoneda
3. BAROQUE
3.1. Poetry. Francesc Vicent Garcia, Francesc Fontanella and Josep Romeguera
3.2. Theatre. Francesc Vicent Garcia, burlesque comedy (La gala està en son punt and the works attributed to Francesc Mulet) and Francesc Fontanella
3.3. Prose. Narratives of Pere Porter's travel
4. ROCOCÓ, THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND NEOCLASSICISM
4.1. Poetry. Francesc Tegell, Ignasi Ferrera and Guillem Roca i Seguí
4.2. Theatre. Minorca (Joan Ramis i Ramis), Northen Catalonia and Guillem Roca i Seguí
4.3. Prose. The Baró de Maldà and Lluís Galiana
5. POPULAR LITERATURE
Learning activities and methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Documentation, reading and study | 71.25 | 2.85 | |
| Oral or writing commentary | 28.5 | 1.14 | |
| Theoretical classes and discussion | 42.75 | 1.71 |
Flipped classroom.
Explanations of the historical context, cultural trends and the most relevant aspects of genres, authors and works
Discussion of problematic issues and readings.
Tutorials.
Assessment
Continuous assessment activities
| Title | Weight | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exam | 50% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39 |
| Participation (attendance will be calculated based on 80% of class hours and will be worth 10% of the subject grade) | 15% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39 |
| Essay or exercise | 35% | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 |
The assessment activities and deadlines will be particularised in class. In addition, this information will be communicated via Moodle, as well as the grades of assessment activities, which may be reviewed in the procedure, day and time 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 committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in 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) is strictly prohibited. Therefore, it will be considered irregular and penalized accordingly.
The activities in which irregularities were committed, the participation and the essay may not be recovered.
The student will be entitled to recovery if the assessment has not been passed, but at least 3.5 has been obtained and, in the continuous assessment, at least 2/3 of the percentage of activities have been completed or, in the unique assessment, all have been submitted.
In the event that assessment activities cannot be taken on site, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc., having ensured that all students are able to access this media.
Erasmus and exchange students who request to advance an exam must present a document from their home university justifying their request.
Unique assessment
Exam (50%)
Essay or exercise (35%)
Commentaries of texts (15%)
The recovery and review procedures will also be those of the continuous assessment.
Bibliography
Readings
A dossier of theoretical or literary texts.
SERAFÍ, Pere, Poesies catalanes, Josep Romeu i Figueras (ed.), Barcelona: Barcino, 2001, p. 58, 67-68, 71, 86-87, 97-102, 125, 130-134, 409, 136-137, 149-150, 144-148, 151-154, 172-175, 184-185, 218-220, 279, 287, 312-313 and 340-343.
FONTANELLA, Francesc, Amor, firmesa i porfia. Lo Desengany, Pep Valsalobre i Albert Rossich (ed.), Barcelona: Barcino, 2022, p. 303-432, corresponding to the second work / Lo Desengany: Poema dramàtic, Obra completa de Francesc Fontanella, edició crítica electrònica, Pep Valsalobre; Marc Sogues (coord. i ed.); Albert Rossich; Eulàlia Miralles; Marta Castaño; Anna Garcia Busquets; Verònica Zaragoza; Narcís Figueras (ed.), Girona: Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat de Girona, 2017. https://www.nise.cat/ca-es/Biblioteca-Digital/Autors/Autor/Poema/pid/1352/Lo_Desengany__Poema_dramatic.
RAMIS I RAMIS, Joan, Lucrècia, Vicent de Melchor; Pep Valsalobre (ed.), Bellcaire d'Empordà: Vitel·la, 2019 / Lucrècia, in Teatre complet, Barcelona: Barcino, 2023, p. 57-113 / Lucrècia o Roma libre: Tragèdia en cinc actes, Sergi Marí (ed.), Barcelona: Institut del Teatre, 2017. http://redit.institutdelteatre.cat/handle/20.500.11904/875?locale-attribute=es.
Approaches
GABRIEL, Pere, Història de la cultura catalana, vol. II-III, Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1996 and 1997.
PAREDES I BAULIDA, Maria, Primera lliçó sobre la Il·lustració, Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 2026.
RIQUER, Martí de; COMAS, Antoni; MOLAS, Joaquim (dir.), Història de la literatura catalana, vol. III-IV, Barcelona: Ariel, 1964.
RIQUER I PERMANYER, Borja de (dir.), Història, política, societat i cultura dels Països Catalans, vol. IV-V, Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1995 and 1997.
ROSSICH, Albert, «Renaixement, Manierisme i Barroc en la cultura catalana», Actes del VIII Col·loqui Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes, vol. II, Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 1989, p. 149-179. http://aillc.espais.iec.cat/files/2018/09/8_2_aillc_149_180.pdf.
—. «La literatura catalana entre el Barroc i el Romanticisme», Caplletra, nº 9 (autumn 1990), p. 35-57. https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Caplletra/article/view/299957/389416.
— (dir.), Panorama crític de la literatura catalana: Edat moderna, Barcelona: Vicens Vives, 2011.
ROSSICH, Albert; VALSALOBRE, Pep, Literatura catalana moderna, siglos XVI-XVIII, Madrid: Síntesis, 2011.
RUBIÓ I BALAGUER, Jordi, Història de la literatura catalana, vol. II-III, Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 1985 and 1986.
SOLERVICENS, Josep (dir.), Història de la literatura catalana. Vol. VI. Literatura moderna. Renaixement, Barroc i Il·lustració, Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana / Barcino / Ajuntament de Barcelona, 2016.
VALSALOBRE, Pep, Primera lliçó sobre el Renaixement, Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 2025.
VALSALOBRE, Pep, ROSSICH, Albert, Literatura i cultura catalanes (segles XVII-XVIII), Barcelona: UOC, 2007. https://cataleg.uab.cat/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2084574
Dictionaries
BOU, Enric, Nou diccionari 62 de la literatura catalana, Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2000.
BROCH, Àlex, Diccionari de la literatura catalana, Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2008. https://www.enciclopedia.cat
Bibliographical repertories
DURAN, Eulàlia; SOLERVICENS, Josep, Orientacions bibliogràfiques sobre literatura catalana moderna (1474-1833), Barcelona: UB, 1993.
QÜERN, bibliographic newsletter of Catalan literature and language from the 12th century to the mid-19th. http://www.quern.cat.
TRACES, Catalan language and literature database. http://www.traces.uab.cat.
Software
No specific software.
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
| Type of teaching | Group | Language | Semester | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan | second semester | morning-mixed |