Selected Chapters of Latin American Literature

Teaching results

Knowledge:
• Acquire knowledge of the main lines of development in the history of Hispanophone literature, their most important representatives and their works.
• The course is primarily aimed at acquiring knowledge of the development of Hispanophone literature and its most important stages. In addition to acquiring knowledge of the history of Hispanophone literature, students will also acquire generally applicable knowledge, broaden their cultural horizons and understand the connections between socio-historical and literary phenomena and events. By gaining an overview of particular movements and specific literary works, students will develop personal attitudes toward events and their reflections in literature. The knowledge given is also applicable in subsequent courses and fields of study.
Competencies:
• Deepen critical thinking through reading and analyzing specific literary texts;
• Understanding of basic terminology in literary theory and its correct use in the analysis of literary works;
• the competence to characterize different literary movements, currents and schools and to abstract these characteristics from a specific literary text;
• competence in the linguistic analysis of a text on the basis of knowledge of the historical, social and cultural background of the period.
Skills:
• Skill in applying the techniques of literary text analysis - determining the external and internal structure of a text, the type of narrator, classifying and characterizing characters, literary space, etc.;
• the ability to analyse and express a critical opinion on representative works by selected authors of different literary movements;
• the ability to relate a literary text to a particular literary period, movement or school;
• Skill in intercultural approach to literature - the influence of world literatures on Hispanophone literature and vice versa.