UGC NET Syllabus for Spanish 2020

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SYLLABUS

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Unit –I: Grammatical Aspects, Linguistics, Methodology, and Translation

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i) Modes, Tenses, Use of the past
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ii) Prepositions and other grammatical categories
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iv) Methods of Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language

v) Problems of Translation in Practice

Unit-II: Advanced Use of Spanish Language

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i) Use of Proverbs and Refrains

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ii) Modismos and Idiomatic Expressions

iii) Synonyms/Antonyms
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iv) Metaphors and Similes

v) Text Analysis

Unit-III: Spain: Pre-history and Medieval Literature and Culture

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i) Making of Iberia, Greek and Roman Colonizations and their
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ii) Visigoths and the Advent of Christianity

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iv) The reconquista and the Cultural Efflorescence of Christian
Kingdoms

v) The Formation of Spanish Language and Early Literary
Manifestations (epic, lyric, popular, religious verse)
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Unit-IV: Early Modern Spain

i) Catholic Kings and the Spanish Empire, the Habsburgs and the Bourbons

ii) Inquisition, Expulsion of Jews and Moriscos and the Making of a
Homogenous Spain, Honour Code

iii) Art, Literature and Culture during the Transition to the Renaissance

iv) Renaissance and Baroque in Art, Literature and Culture

v) Golden Age Literature

Unit-V: 18th and 19th Century Spain: Between Modernity and Tradition

i) Enlightenment: el despotismo ilustrado and 18th Century Cultural
Manifestations

ii) Historic Panorama of 19th Century: Spanish War of Independence,
Constitution of Cádiz, Carlist Wars, Restoration

iii) 19th Century Art and Culture

iv) Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism

v) Generation of 1898 and Modernism

Unit-VI: 20th and 21st Century: Contemporary Spain

i) The Second Republic, the Popular Front and the Spanish Civil War:
Fascism, Anarchism and Socialism

ii) Vanguard movements and the Generation of 1927

iii) Post-war and Contemporary Spanish Literature, Art and Culture

iv) Transition to Democracy, Constitution of 1978, Spain and the European
Union, Spanish Economic Miracle and Crisis

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Unit-VII: Latin America: from Pre-Hispanic to Colonial Period

i) Aztecs, Mayas, Incas and others: Religion, Cults, Monuments

ii) Knowledge Systems of Indigenous Civilizations
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Epic and Baroque in the Americas)

Unit-VIII: Independence, Formation of Nation States, Caudillos and Caciques:

i) Liberators and 19th Century Statesmen of Latin America

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iv) Modernism, Latin American Identity Construction through Essays

v) Regionalist, Indigenous and Gaucho Literature

Unit-IX: 20th Century Latin America

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Unit-X: Contemporary Latin America

i) Internationalisation, Regional Integration, Indigenous Assertion and New
Social Movements, De-colonial Thought

ii) De-anchoring of Latin American Writing. Border and Exile Literatures

iii) Experimental Texts (the Merger of Performance, Cinema and Literature)

iv) Non-Fiction Writing, the nueva crónica, the Detective Novel and the New
Historical Novel

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