Teaching plan for the course unit (Short version)
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General information

 

Course unit name: Literature and Resistance

Course unit code: 575332

Academic year: 2025-2026

Coordinator: Myriam Mallart Brussosa

Department: Faculty of Philology and Communication

Credits: 6

Single program: No definit

Estimated learning time

Total number of hours 150

 

Face-to-face and/or online activities

60

	-  Cultural trip	Face-to-face and online		6
	-  Seminar	Face-to-face and online		42
	-  Experimental workshop	Face-to-face and online		12

Supervised project

45

Independent learning

45

Learning objectives

Referring to knowledge • Further advance knowledge about the relationship between ideology and creation in literary, cultural and artistic movements throughout the 20th century up to the present day. • Provide skills to recognize typologies, symbolic and ideological functions, stereotypes, influences and descriptive techniques in works of fiction that have accompanied the major social and political events of the 20th and 21st centuries.  • Develop the capacity to construct robust, complex arguments that address the state of the art on an international level. • Develop the capacity to manage information effectively, to identify the literary, sociological and cultural theories and methodologies applicable to specific cases, and to contribute clearly and accurately to discussions of literary and cultural issues.   Referring to abilities, skills Develop the capacity to construct robust, complex arguments that address the state of the art on an international level. Capacity to manage information effectively, to identify the literary, sociological and cultural theories and methodologies applicable to specific cases, and to contribute clearly and accurately to discussions of literary and cultural issues.   Referring to attitudes, values and norms Demonstrate respect for all reasonably argued and well-founded viewpoints.

 

 

Teaching blocks

 

1. Resistances and Resilience: from intimacy to public space

2. From Commitment to Revolution: realism, utopia

3. Censorship and Self-censorship

 

 

Official assessment of learning outcomes

 

Continuous assessment Preparation and oral defense of two critical exercises (40% and 40%) that need to be submitted to a previous individual tutorization. Both exercises must be passed to pass the subject. Active class participation (20%).   Examination-based assessment Students who cannot follow the continuous assessment procedure may request single assessment provided they do so by the deadline established in the Faculty’s exam calendar.  Single assessment consists of a written assignment (approximately 4,000 words) worth 100% of the final grade, which must be submitted before the official deadline stated in the Faculty’s academic calendar. Repeat assessment The procedure for repeat assessment is the same as that established for single assessment.

Reading and study resources

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Book

Ardolino, Francesco, Elena Losada (eds.). 2017. Violència i Identitat. Edicions de la UB.

Aronica, Daniela. 2004. El Neorrealismo italiano, Madrid, Síntesis.

Baumeister, Andrea T., John Horton (eds.). 1996. Literature and the Political Imagination. Routledge.

Carbó Ferran, Dolors Jiménez i Ramon X. Rosselló (a cura de). 2000. Les literatures catalana i francesa: postguerra i engagement, Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2000.

Cavarero Adriana. 2007. Orrorismo. Feltrinelli.

Fanon, Frantz. 2020. Els condemnats de la terra. Tigre de paper. 1961.

Hawkes, David. 1996. Ideology. Routledge.

Simbor, Vicent. 2005. El realisme compromès en la narrativa catalana de postguerra, Barcelona, Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2005.

Trodd, Zoe (ed.). 2006. American Protest Literature. Harvard University Press.

Electronic text

Debord, Guy. 1967. La société du spectacle. Trad. cat. en línia: https://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Societat_de_l%27Espectacle.