Comparative Literature C 155 - Hemispheric Exchanges

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University of California-Los Angeles

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Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. In "Reading North by South," Neil Larsen claims that North American interest in Latin American Boom literature was of sinister intent, being largely product of U.S. Cold War politics, investing in fiction that could produce images of areas ripe for development. From poetry perspective, dynamic was quite different. In 1930s, North American poets became involved in labor of love, reading, circulating, and translating recent or contemporaneous poetry by their counterparts to south, producing lingua franca with unexplored consequences for poetry north and south of border. Study of poetry translations by writers from both hemispheres and examination of consequences of these preliminary translations for later development of poetry on both sides of continental divide. Concurrently scheduled with course C255. P/NP or letter grading.

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5.00

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www.ucla.edu/

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(310) 825-4321

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Western Association of Schools and Colleges

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Quarter

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