SPAN 180 A-Z - (LT) Special Topics in Hispanic Literatures and CulturesSemester Hours: 3
Periodically
Intensive study of specific issues, themes, genres, or authors in the Spanish-speaking world. Topics may include poetry and the visual arts, the romantic novel, travel narratives, literature in film, language(s) in the Hispanic world, literature and philosophy, and literature and religion. This course, as all courses with the SPAN prefix, is taught in Spanish.
Current Special Topics
SPAN 180I - The Essential Borges
This Special Topics course offers a comprehensive introduction to the work of Jorge Luis Borges, widely considered to be one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. The central purpose of the course is to familiarize students with the moral, religious, political, historical, and cultural issues explored by the writer in poetry and prose. Our introduction will be based upon critical readings while using an interdisciplinary approach that is buttressed by the work of contemporary Borges theorists (Alazraki, Dorfman, Molloy, Piglia, Rodríguez Monegal, etc.). We will also investigate how Borges’s work relates to other disciplines, such as anthropology, mathematics, physics, and philosophy.
SPAN 180L: Boom! 100 Years of Solitude
In this independent study we will read and discuss, One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, a novel written by a Colombian, in Mexico, and published in Argentina during the height of the Cold War. To understand this multinational context, we will relate the novel to the geographical, political, historical and literary context—provided by the professor in short lectures—in which it was written. We will discuss the novel in a number of intensive sessions. At the end of the independent study, the student will take an oral exam following the saga of the Buendía family and relating it to the Latin American political landscape of the period.
SPAN 180J - Poetry on the Edge: The Latin American Avant-Garde
This course studies the Latin American avant-garde through poetry and art. First, we will go back to its European origins and study the early experimenters of art such as Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso, and Marcel Duchamp. Later, we will see the work of poets such as Vicente Huidobro, Cesar Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Oliverio Girondo, and Jorge Luis Borges. The visual works of fundamental painters such as Diego Rivera, Wilfredo Lam, Xul Solar, Anita Malfatti, Roberto Matta, and Fernando Botero, among other figures, will also be seen in a comparative manner.
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