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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar, Prof. Davis, Prof. Gómez, Prof. Miller, Prof. Pavlovic, Prof. C. Soufas, Prof. Sullivan, Prof. Rivera-DÃaz. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. An introduction to modern theories of literary analysis. Readings consist of primary texts in the schools of thought to be studied, which may include formalism, stylistics, semiotics, reader-oriented approaches, structuralism, deconstruction, feminism, poststructuralism, queer theory, and postcolonial studies.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Bass, Prof. Charles, Prof. Miller. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence; satisfies pre-twentieth-century requirement. Examination of literary, historical, and legal texts written in Spanish America, from 1492, the year of Columbus’s arrival to the New World, to 1830, the beginning of the independence period. The origin and development of the field of colonial literary studies also considered. Visual texts and films to complement Spanish readings.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Shea. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. Representative literary figures of the six Central American countries, including DarÃo, Asturias, Cardenal, AlegrÃa, and Cuadra.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Gómez, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. With emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries, the course traces the literary development of the Spanish Antilles (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico) through the works of Heredia, Hostos, Villaverde, MartÃ, Avellaneda, Palés Matos, Guillén, Bosch, Marqués, Carpentier, Lezama Lima, Cabrera Infante, Sarduy, L. R. Sánchez, and Ferré, among others.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar, Prof. Miller. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. Study of the modernist movement through the works of MartÃ, Gutiérrez Nájera, Casal, Silva, DarÃo, Rodó, Agustini and others.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar, Prof. Gómez, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera-DÃaz. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. A study of the contemporary short story of Spanish America with emphasis on major authors such as Borges, Cortázar, Onetti, Rulfo, Carpentier, GarcÃa Márquez, Silvina Ocampo and others.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. This course surveys the avant-garde movements in Spanish America and Brazil, focusing on the period from 1916 to 1935. Some of the movements to be examined include Huidobro’s creacionismo, ultraismo, Brazilian modernismo and verdeamarelismo, Mexican estridentismo and the “Contemporáneos†group and the impact in Latin America of surrealism and other European avant-garde movements. Readings in both Spanish and Portuguese, and the class is taught in both languages, but fluency in both languages is not expected. (Same as PORT 619.)
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar, Prof. Gómez, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera-DÃaz. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. A study of the major achievements and experiments in the contemporary Spanish American novel.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Avelar, Prof. Gómez, Prof. Charles, Prof. Miller, Prof. Shea, Prof. Rivera-DÃaz. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence. A panoramic view of the essay in Spanish America. The leading authors (Bello, Sarmiento, Hostos, MartÃ, Rodó, Mariátegui, Borges, Castellanos, Ferré, Paz and others) are studied with emphasis on their contributions to the genre.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Bass, Prof. Charles, Prof. Miller. Pre-requisite: 400-level sequence; satisfies pre-twentieth-century requirement. This course examines the ways in which the discovery and conquest of America were narrated, with special focus on the relationship between early modern historiography, legal traditions, and rhetorical standards and practices. Chronicles and epics of the Spanish colonial era are evaluated in relation to Renaissance humanism and philosophy, Spanish colonial language policy and linguistic theory, the status of the Americas and Native Americans in natural and moral history, and debates concerning the justice of imperial conquest and governance.
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