Graduate Courses
Fall 2011
HISP 2160K - New Worlds of Baroque Lyric: Góngora, Lope, Quevedo
Global exploration, imitation of Latin and Italian models, and rediscovery of native poetic traditions reshape Spanish 17th-century lyric, opening up new thematic territories and generic alliances for poesía culta, while redefining poetic language itself. Readings include Latin and Italian source texts, 16th-century Spanish predecessors, poetics and commentaries.
Visiting Prof. Mary Gaylord, Fridays 3-5pm
HISP 2520J - Teoria y practica del texto transatlántico
Este curso propone varios escenarios teóricos sobre el texto transatlántico. Partiendo de modelos de teoría literaria formal trabajaremos sobre un conjunto de textos de ambas orillas del idioma. Revisaremos las cuestiones del genero, representación, lectura y recepción, mezcla y heterogeneidad archivo y cambio.
Prof. Julio Ortega, Wednesdays 3-5pm
HISP 2620N - The Generation of 1927 throughout the XX Century
The poetical group of 1927 , as a synecdoche of a modern cultural process, goes through crucial circumstances of the XX spanish century: avatgarde, engagement with políticas, civil war, exile, resistence, and faces new challenges (of relationship between arts, gender, identity) . Close inspection of poetics and poems offer a privileged perspective to the broad landscape of the spanish literature during the XX Century.
Visiting Prof. Andres Soría, Tuesdays 4-6pm
Spring 2011
HISP 2030B - History and Fiction: Literature of the 15th Century
The goal of this course is to familiarize students with major literary works of the Fifteenth Century, and their socio-cultural background. Major works of three outstanding poets of this period (Juan de Mena, Íñigo López de Mendoza, and Jorge Manrique), satirical and historical writings, romances, (ballads sung with instrumental accompaniment), Alfonso Martínez de Toledo's Corbacho and Fernando de Rojas' Celestina will be presented in the context of the distinct cultural traditions that coexisted in Spain.
Prof. Mercedes Vaquero, Mondays 3-5pm
HISP 2350H - The History of Wonder in Colonial Spanish American Lettres
The notion of wonder (asombro, maravilla) played a determining role in the Spanish and Creole writings of the Spanish American colonial period. The volatile aesthetic of wonder raises and implicates such important issues as otherness, exoticism, category crisis, and identity formation. A studies course examining the role of wonder in New World historiographic and literary writings of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Prof. Stephanie Merrim, Fridays 3-5:20 pm
HISP 2620A - City Lights. Literary Constructions and Urban Space in the Hispanic World, 1890-1990
Writers and artists have expressed the modern city experience, its unique spaces, the shock of simultaneity, the sense of being unknown in a public place. We discuss topics such as creation (and interpretation) of new public spaces, the uses of Modernity, new sensations and feelings. Readings by B. Pérez Galdós, Azorín, P. Baroja, M. de Unamuno, R. Gómez de la Serna, F. de Ayala, P. Salinas, M. Rodoreda, E. Mendoza, J. Marsé, M. Roig.
Prof. Enric Bou, Wednesdays 3-5 pm
HISP 2900 - Theory and Methods of Foreign Language Teaching
How are second languages acquired? How can instruction optimize acquisition? How do we evaluate, improve or create effective teaching materials? This course introduces the theory of foreign language learning and teaching and seeks to help language teachers implement communicative language teaching through reflective practice. Written permission required for undergraduates.
A. Linarejos and L DeBennedette, Tuesdays 3-5 pm
Fall 2010
HISP 2350L - románticos y modernos: un proyecto para el individuo en el xix latinoamericano
Becoming a responsible and independent "self" was at the core of the project of Modernity. How can one develop a personal and original intellectual project while at the same time one has to cope with the "death of God" and the challenges of adolescent Republics? This course researches different approaches to this central problem of 19th Century Latin America. Readings by Villaverde, Echeverría, Isaacs, Sarmiento, Cambacérès, Rubén Darío, Rodó, Herrera y Reissig, Borges, and others.
Asst. Prof. Aldo Mazzucchelli. Mondays 3-5 pmHISP 2160J - The poetics and practice of space in the theater of the spanish baroque
This seminar will explore the real and virtual spaces of seventeenth-century Spanish drama. We will examine the diverse spaces in which theatrical performances took place (public playhouses, city streets, court theaters, convents), as well as the various types of spaces represented on the stage (domestic and public, urban and rural, worldly and supernatural, familiar and distant). How did dramatic space articulate the boundaries of the public and private in the Spanish baroque? How did it function in the configuration of social hierarchies, subjectivities, and marginal as well as normative identities? In the theatrical world of seventeenth-century Spain, how did spatial practices on stage shape the experience of space off stage? Visiting Assoc. Prof. Laura Bass (Tulane University). Wednesdays 3-5 pm
HISP 2520P - narrativa latinoamericana contemporánea (de Juan Rulfo a Diamela Eltit)
Estudiaremos los modos de representación, prácticas de escritura y lectura, redes culturales, tramas sociales y políticas de los relatos de la modernidad crítica y diferencia latinoamericana. Autores: Cortázar, García Márquez, Fuentes, Bryce, Rodriguez Juliá. Prof. Julio Ortega. Thursdays 3-5 pm