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A close reading and analysis of representative works by writers who formed the group known as the Generation of 1898: Miguel de Unamuno, Antonio Azorín, Pío Baroja, Ramódel Valle-Inclán, and Antonio Machado, among others. The course will attempt to analyze their special development of universal literary themes and the evolution of their personalized style. (Fall) Prerequisite: any Main Currents course. Begley/ Three credits
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Close reading and analysis of prose works by 20th and 21st- Century Spanish authors. Prerequisite: any Main Currents course. Kercher, Leone/ Three credits
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This course presents issues of Spanish culture and history through close analysis and discussion of films of major Spanish directors from the 1950s to the present. Topics will vary by semester. This course is taught in Spanish. Prerequisite: any Main Currents course. Kercher, Leone/ Three credits
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In this course students will learn about how urban life, violence, and modern cities have been represented by journalist-literary writers in Latin America. We will discuss the relationship between literature and journalism, and between chronicles and other literary genres. In addition, students will examine some works of the “New Journalism” in the United States andits influence over Latin American writers. Intensive Spanish writing will be a major requirement. Prerequisite: any Main Currents course. Grijalva/ Three credits
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Close reading and analysis of representative playwrights since World War II. The focus will be on significant movements in Spanish-American theater. The playwrights discussed will be those who have been responsive to world currents and to the cultural development of their countries. Prerequisite: any Main Currents course. Staff/ Three credits
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Magical realism refers to a specific set of narrative works by Latin American writers in the second half of the twentieth century. This course will develop a more comprehensive understanding of this literary movement by analyzing a key number of primary texts along with all the pertinent literary criticism and theory. The textual strategies and techniques that help define these works include the use of rich, detailed language designed to create a realistic setting and characters in the story. The element of magic or the supernatural then enters or manifests itself in this seemingly “real” literarylandscape. Although the texts incorporate these bursts of the unexplained, the main body of the text always follows a mimetic approach to fictional production. Our study of these fantastic texts will begin with a discussion of possible pre-cursors of the movement, such as the Argentineans Jorge Borges and Julio Cortázar, and then move on to more seminal texts like Cien a駉s de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez an Eva Luna by Isabel Allende. In the last few weeks, students will have the opportunity to analyze more recent texts to see how magical realism affects current modes of literary production. Prerequiste: any Main Currents course. Guerrero-Watanabe/ Three credits
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Short fiction is particularly significant in the study of 20th century Spanish-American literature, because this genre has been a catalyst in the literary developments that led to the “boom” of the 1960’s. The texts selected are short narrativethat represent regional differences, but also reflect common aesthetic goals which aim at innovation and change. These literary movements include magic realism, as in the works of García Márquez and Carpentier; the fantastic, expressedin the short stories of Borges and Cortázar; social realism as presented by Rulfo; and feminist literature written by authors, such as Ferré, Claribel Alegría, and Poniatowska,who address gender issues and questions of identity and social roles. Prerequisite: any Main Currents course. Guerrero-Watanabe/ Three credits
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This course focuses on key films of the last sixty years from the major national film industries of Latin America, foremost Mexico, Cuba and Argentina. It explores how these films interpret important socio-historical and cultural issues, such as development, national identity, class, gender, and ethnicity. This course also introduces the student to basic sequence analysis and film vocabulary in Spanish. The course is taught in Spanish. Prerequisite: any Main Currents course. Kercher/ Three credits
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A comparative study of Modernismo in Spanish-American poetry and its manifestations in Spain, with an emphasis on the work of Martí, Nájera, Darío, Silva, Lugones, ChocanoReissig, the Machados, Jiménez, and Valle-Inclán. Prerequisite:any Main Currents course. Guerrero-Watanabe/ Three credits
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An introduction to the Spanish system of versification which is illustrated through the study and analysis of representative works of Spanish and Spanish-American poets. Prerequisite: any Main Currents course. Begley/ Three credits
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