SPAN 8036 - Play and Playfulness in Latin American Literature.

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University of Cincinnati-Main Campus

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Starting from Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens, this course traces the fundamental theories of game and play throughout the Twentieth Century, including those from Caillois, Derrida, Hermann, Sutton-Smith, Deleuze, Waugh, and Stewart. Although we can find some sporadic play elements in Latin America during the nineteenth century and the colonial periods, the ludic only appears in its complete dimension around 1930 with authors like Borges, Huidobro, and Macedonio Fernandez. These authors are well acquainted with European Avant-Gardes but, far from imitating them, they appropriate these techniques to create their own hybrid expression. This evolves through different paths throughout the century as we can see through texts that are ludic in many different ways: Rayuela, Un mundo para Julius, Tres tristes tigres, Cobra, etc.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.uc.edu

Phone Number:

(513) 556-6000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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