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3.00 Credits
A survey of major Latin-American literary works focusing on canonical works of the 20th and 21st centuries in their cultural and historical contexts. The course includes discussions of major literary movements such as the avant garde, the Boom, and the post-Boom. Other topics may include the literary and cultural responses to revolution, dictatorship, and the evolving definitions of Latin America. Authors may include Quiroga, Neruda, Guillén, Vallejo, Borges, Cortázar, Rulfo, Carpentier, GarcÃa Márquez, Poniatowska, Fuentes, Ferré, and others. Prerequisites: Span 307D; concurrent registration in Span 308D is recommended.
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3.00 Credits
In this course we trace the trajectory of the short story in Chile in the 20th century with special attention to such literary movements as realism, naturalism, vanguardism, surrealism, and the new narrative, including the literature written during the dictatorship. The course tries to determine what specifically can be expressed about national identity through narrative, and is informed by historical, political, and sociological analyses. The course includes several field trips to related sites, and guest lectures by major Chilean writers and critics. Class requirements include a short essay, a long final essay, and a final exam. this course is taught in Santiago, Chile, as part of the Washington University Chile Program. Conducted in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
We study nationalism as it was in evidence in the Spanish-American War in the United States and in Spain as an outgrowth of each country's history. We shall read periodicals of the period, and study caricatures and other artistic expressions, as well as writings by authors such as Stephen Crane, Galdós, Mark Twain, Fernando OrtÃz, Ivan Musicant, and others. Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines are included in the scope of the course. Students are expected to present a book report orally and to write it formally; in addition, a term paper of about 15 pages on a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor serves as a final project. The course is conducted in English although students able to read other languages, may do some of the readings in the original. May count as elective credit for the major if work is done in Spanish. Enrollment limited to 15 students.
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3.00 Credits
Because Cervantes's masterpiece is considered to be the first modern novel, it is absolutely essential to any understanding of literature as a whole. By way of a close textual reading, this course focuses on all the ways Don Quixote recapitulates almost the entire Western tradition and how it anticipates so many of the later developments of the novel. Course conducted in English.
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3.00 Credits
Taught in Spanish. Topics vary. Can be repeated for credit. This course can be counted as one of the three surveys required to obtain a Spanish major. Prerequisites: Span 307D; concurrent registration in Span 308D is recommended. Section 01. Spanish-American Short Novel. Study of the 20th-century short novel in Spanish America. Authors include Bombal, Bioy Casares, Hernández, Castellanos, Fuentes, GarcÃa Márquez, Ferré, Valenzuela, del RÃo. Section 02. The Spanish Short Story During the Past 50 Years. An explosion of storytellers: the rise and fall and rebirth of a genre. This course reviews a half century of short fiction in Spain, emphasizing the works written since 1970. We focus on the most significant, representative movements in relation to their historical and social contexts. Writers studied include Camilo José Cela, Miguel Delibes, Ignacio Aldecoa, Ana MarÃa Matute, Carmen MartÃn Gaite, Juan Benet, José MarÃa Merino, Luis Mateo DÃez, Esther Tusquets, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Soledad Puértolas, Javier MarÃas, Antonio Muñoz Molina, and Marina Mayoral. Paper, mid-term and final exams. Section 03. Early Modern Spanish Texts: Whose "Golden Age" Do They Represent? This course studies a series of works from 16th- and early 17th-century Spain canonized by later readers as classics of national Spanish literature, whose original audiences viewed them as comical, even subversive experiments that went beyond the limits of known literary forms to incorporate discourses of material experience, revealing the decadent underside of imperial Spain's so-called "Golden Age." Includes the Lazarillo de Tormes, Fuenteovejuna, selections from Don Quixote, and other readings. Satisfies the 300-level literature survey requirement for the Spanish major and minor..
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3.00 Credits
Study of major 20th-century women writers in English translation. We read poems, plays, essays, and short fiction by authors such as Agustini, Ocampo, Mistral, Bombal, Gambaro, Ferré, Valenzuela, and others. Class conducted in English. Spanish majors do the readings and papers in Spanish. Enrollment limit 25.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the 20th-century short novel in Spanish America. Authors include Bombal, Bioy Casares, Hernández, Castellanos, Fuentes, GarcÃa Márquez, Ferré, Valenzuela, del RÃo.
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3.00 Credits
Ever since the detective story took readers by storm during the last decades of the 19th century, the genre of detective fiction has continued to flourish while undergoing numerous transformations. Latin-American literature is well known for the alternative re-readings of the crime fiction canon by well-established writers who broke canonical rules of classical and hard-boiled detective narrative and both parodied and politicized the genre through endless experimentation. In this course, we focus on the intersection of action and enigma, clues and patterns of a crime, the unraveling of a puzzle and the solution of a mystery in narratives by Poe, Borges, Chandler, Hammett, Valenzuela, Piglia, GarcÃa Márquez, and others, as well as in selected films based on their works. In English.
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3.00 Credits
An explosion of storytellers: the rise and fall and rebirth of a genre. This course reviews a half century of short fiction in Spain, emphasizing the works written since 1970. We focus on the most significant, representative movements in relation to their historical and social contexts. Writers studied include Camilo José Cela, Miguel Delibes, Ignacio Aldecoa, Ana MarÃa Matute, Carmen MartÃn Gaite, Juan Benet, José MarÃa Merino, Luis Mateo DÃez, Esther Tusquets, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Soledad Puértolas, Javier MarÃas, Antonio Muñoz Molina, and Marina Mayoral. Prerequisites: Span 307D; concurrent registration in Span 308D is recommended. Paper, mid-term, and final exams. In Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
Comprehensive study of Borges' major works. Analysis of basic themes, philosophical implications, and structural elements present in Borges' poetry, essays, and short stories. We also study a number of film adaptations of Borges' work, as well as a number of texts by writers he has influenced.
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