Spanish 120A -120D - Literature in the Hispanic World

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University of California-Los Angeles

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Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Required of Spanish majors; must be taken in sequence. Historical/cultural survey of Hispanic literature from its beginning in medieval Iberia to contemporary writing in Spain, Latin America, and the U.S. Relationship between fundamental unity and astonishing geographic and cultural diversity. Particular attention to relation between literature and multicultural societies in which it is produced, as well as to individual texts which define or create new artistic possibilities. P/NP or letter grading: 120A. Hispanic Literature to 1700. (5) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 25. Multilingual Iberia: first literary texts in Hispanic dialects. Medieval Castilian literature. America: literature of discovery and conquest. Renaissance literature in Spain and America. Spanish Golden Age. Baroque literature in Spain and America. P/NP or letter grading. 120B. Hispanic Literature, 1700 to 1898. (5) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Requisite: course 120A. The Enlightenment, Spanish nationalism, and Spanish-American nation building. Romanticism in Spain and America. Journalism and costumbrismo in Spain and America. Historical narrative and sentimental novel in Spain and America. Regionalism in Spain. National diversity in America: indigenismo, gaucho literature, Mexican corrido, Afro-Americanism. P/NP or letter grading. 120C. Hispanic Literature since 1898. (5) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 120A, 120B. Unity and divergence. Modernismo and Spanish Civil War in Spain and America. Representations of America. Spanish surrealism. American vanguardism. Franquismo and after. Mexico and Mexican Revolution. New American narratives, testimony, feminism. P/NP or letter grading. 120D. Hispanic Literature in the U.S. (5) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 120A, 120B, 120C. Spanish presence in the Southwest. Ethnic diversity: Spaniards, criollos, mestizos. Mexican War and Mexican American literature. Literature of the Chicano movement: recovering mestizo heritage, feminist consciousness. P/NP or letter grading.

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3.00 - 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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