Literature-Culture-Media: Social Critique and Aesthetics in the Contemporary Spanish Novel

Education facts

Code: LIVR55

<p>Since the financial crisis of 2008, Spanish authors have used fiction to understand, question, and influence their society. This course invites you to explore how literature can be both artistic and political - and how it reflects a changing world.</p><p>This course focuses on contemporary Spanish novels that engage in social critique. You’ll learn to analyse literary texts using relevant theoretical tools and place them in historical, social, and ideological contexts. The course highlights how fiction portrays Spain’s societal challenges after the 2008 crisis, and how aesthetics and critique work together.</p><p>You’ll develop your ability to discuss literature’s role in public debate and practice expressing independent and critical ideas in spoken and written Spanish.<br/><br/></p>

Entry requirements

B. A. Course in Spanish Literature (SPAK01) or equivalent.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Literature-Culture-Media: Social Critique and Aesthetics in the Contemporary Spanish Novel

  Lund University

  Lund

  Start date: 31 August 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %