These courses count as advanced courses and carry both
university and major credit. 215.231 (H,W) Introduction to Spanish Literature
A writing intensive course designed in order to (1) continue to develop the student’s linguistic proficiency through the careful reading of a wide-range of literary texts written in Spanish; (2) help the student develop and refine the skills and terms required for advanced studies in literature; and (3) provide the student with an overview of Spanish and Spanish-American literary history.
Although the course focuses on texts written in Spanish, students who go on to study literature in other languages will benefit from the critical skills developed in this course. This course is required for the Major in Spanish.
Staff 3 credits 215.336 (H) Don Quijote
A close reading and discussion primarily in Spanish of
Cervantes’ masterpiece, with concentration on its major
themes and contributions to the formation of the modern
novel. Prerequisite: Advanced Spanish or equivalent.
Sieber 3 credits 215.337 (H) Teatro español del siglo de oro
Sieber 3 credits 215.339 (H) Borges and Philosophy
In this course we will read some of the most important works of the Argentinian writer, thinker, and critic Jorge Luis Borges, as they intersect with fundamental questions in modern philosophy. The relation of Borges to thinkers like Kant, Leibniz, Heidegger, and Derrida will be at the core of our discussions.
Egginton 3 credits 215.341 (H) Autobiography and the Novel in Latin
America
The course explores the constitution of the subject in
the narrative project of the novel. Autobiographical fictions
by Ocampo, Vargas Llosa, Poniatowska, Arguedas,
Piñón, etc.
Castro-Klarén 3 credits 215.342 (H) Introduction to the Formation of Latin
American Cultures and Their Literatures I
The course will explore the cultural continuities and
fractures in the unfolding of life in the Andes from the
appearance of the first urban center on the coastal valleys--
2000bc-- to the aftermath of the Spanish conquest at
about 1600. Readings will be taken from archeology and
anthropology. Andean and Christian myths of origin and
theories of state formation will be examined along with
the chronicles written by Spanish conquistadores, Indian
and Mestizo intellectuals.
Castro-Klarén 3 credits 215.344 (H) Contemporary Latin American Novel and
Short Story
An examination of the span of Latin American narrative
after Modernismo. Discussions will be in English, but students
have the option of reading the materials and writing
in Spanish or Portuguese.
Castro-Klarén 3 credits 215.345 (H) Introduction to the Formation of Latin
American Cultures and Literatures II
Independence wars, the Republican and modern periods
in Spanish American literatures (1780-). Core readings:
selections from the work of Sarmiento, Echeverria, Mancilla,
Villaderde, modernist and avant-garde poetry and
prose, Borges, Cortázar, Carpentier, Arguedas, Castellanos,
Fuentes, Peri-Rossi, Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa,
Rivera Martinez.
Staff 3 credits 215.346 (H) Contemporary Latin American Novel
This course explores the contemporary Latin American
novel, including work by Machado de Assis, Teresa de la
Parra, Jose Maria Arguedas, Rosario Castellanos, Clarise
Lispector, Carlos Fuentes, and Garcia Marquez.
Castro-Klarén 3 credits 215.347 (H) 20th Century Latin American Literature
A survey of the major prose writing in Latin American in the 20th Century.
Castro-Klaren 3 credits 215.352 (H) Narration in Text and Film
Focus on 20th-century authors from Spanish America in
comparative reference to European and American fiction
and film.
González 3 credits 215.353 (H) Advanced Spanish: The Art of Reading
Learning how to read prose and poetry in Spanish from
a literary perspective. Authors are from Spain and Latin
America.
González 3 credits 215.354 (H) El Caribe/The Caribbean
The Caribbean in art and literature from Shakespeare’s
The Tempest to contemporary writers in English and Spanish.
(Cross-Listed with Film and Media Studies and Program
for Comparative American Cultures.)
González 3 credits 215.355 (H) Film and Literature in Spanish
Learning to discuss film and literature through Spanish
and Latin American sensibilities.
González 3 credits 215.357 (H) Realism, Magic, Religion, Amor y Locura
Three classics of realismo mágico studied in reference to religious and magical phenomena and cross-cultural conceptions of madness and passion. Gabriel García Márquez (El amor en los tiempos del cólera and El amor y otros demonios; Isabel Allende (La casa de los espíritus); and Laura Restreo (Delirio). Taught in Spanish.
E. Gonzalez 3 credits 215.370 (H) Studies in Spanish and Latin American Poetry
In this course we will approach the question of what poetry is and how to read it through the examples of two Spanish poets—Federico García Lorca and Antonio Machado—and two Latin American poets—Ruben Darío and Pablo Neruda. We will read their work in the context of questions opened up by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger around the nature of poetry and its relation to human being. The course will be taught in English with readings in Spanish.
Egginton 3 credits 215.436 (H) The Cid
This course traces the figure of the Cid from medieval
warrior to national hero. Readings include the Poem of
Mio Cid, re-creations of the legend, and the history of
scholarship.
Altschul 3 credits 215.440 (H) Picaresque Novel in Spain
This course will consist of close readings of the Lazarillo de
Tormes, selections from Mateo Aleman’s Guzman de Alfarache,
and three of Cervantes’ Novelas ejemplares. These texts
reveal the impact that Spanish fiction exerted on Golden-
Age Spanish literary history and on the European novel
in general. Conducted in Spanish. Prerequisite: Advanced
Spanish or permission of instructor.
Sieber 3 credits 215.441 (H) Borges and Cortázar on Self-Writing
Castro-Klarén 3 credits 215.443 (H) The Post-Colonial Debate in Latin
American Culture and Literature
Castro-Klarén 3 credits 215.444 (H) Mexic su historia y cultura
Castro-Klaren 3 credits 215.447 (H) Borges & His Times
An examination of Borges’ life and major works. Taught
in Spanish. Prerequisite: Advanced Spanish or instructor’s
consent.
Castro-Klarén 3 credits 215.451 (H) El Cine de Almodóvar
From Pepi to Hable con ella, the films will be studied in
form, content, and socio-political terms.
González 3 credits 215.452 (H) Che Guevara and Magical Realism
A consideration of the career and myth of Latin America’s
best known individual in counterpoint with its most influential
literary style. Taught in English, cross-listed with
Latin American Studies.
González 3 credits 215.453 (H) The Cuban Diaspora
In sites such as Havana, Miami, Washington, New York,
London, Madrid, currents in urban culture among
Cubans on the island and elsewhere. Taught in Spanish.
Prerequisite: Advanced Spanish.
González 3 credits 215.454 (H) Medieval and Contemporary Literatures and Cultures Face-Off
Taking into account comparative studies in medieval and modern literatures and theory, this seminar examines ways in which these temporally distant and apparently incommensurable cultural productions reflect on and dialogue with one another. Classes will discuss modern works and selections from medieval texts including Tirante el blanco and Amadís de Gaula face-to-face with Alejo Carpentier’s Los pasos perdidos; Cárcel de amor and El collar de la paloma with Gabriel García Márquez’s El amor en los tiempos del cólera, and Siete infantes de Lara and Poema del Cid with Crónica de una muerte anunciada. Additional texts include El amor y otros demonios (García Márquez), El beso de la mujer araña (Manuel Puig), Eric y Enide (Manuel Vázquez Montalbán), and El señor de los últimos días (Homero Aridjis). Theory includes psychoanalysis, the location of medievalism in the development of contemporary critical theory, and studies on spatialization and temporality.
González/Altschul 215.455 (H) Cuban Noir
The genre of noir in-and-around detective fiction as portrayed in novels, short stories, and movies. Readings and viewings centered on mutual influences high-and-low between Cuba and the US from Hemingway and the Mafia to the now foreclosed cultural openings between the two countries in the 1990s. Taught in Spanish.
E. Gonzalez 3 credits 215.456 (H) Gauchos, Negros, Gitanos
Study of the literature and music inspired by three groups
of great liminal influence in the cultural and political
affairs of their respective nations. Gauchos (Argentina).
Afro Hispanics (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo).
Gitanos (Spain). Attention given to popular and learned
myths and stereotypes and the history of efforts to establish
self-identity. Conducted in Spanish. Prerequisite:
Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.
González 3 credits 215.467 (H) Mexico en su Literatura y su Artes
Estudio del México contemporaneo en su literatura, música, pintura y cine. Clase dictada enteramente en español.
González 3 Credits 215.468 (H) Reconquest & Crusade
In 1096 Christianity embarked on the first of a series of Crusades to recapture the “Holy Land” from Muslim rule. Yet closer to home, most of the Iberian Peninsula had been under Muslim rule since 711. Through the standpoint of literature, this course will discuss the ideologies of Christian territorial expansion in Muslim Spain during the crusading era. Readings include Gonzalo de Berceo, the poems of Alfonso XI, Fernán González, and the Infantes de Lara.
Altschul 3 credits 215.484 (H) From Manuscript to Copyright and Beyond:
The Life of Medieval Iberian Text
This course will examine texts beginning with El Conde
Lucanor by don Juan Manuel through medieval versions
and modern scholarly adaptations. This collection of
framed narratives, contemporary to Canterbury Tales and
Boccaccio’s Decameron, will lead us to current discussions
on copyright and individual authorship, open source
and hypertextuality. Taught in Spanish. Prerequisites:
Advanced Spanish or permission of instructor.
Altschul 3 credits 215.485 (H) Introduction to Spanish Medieval Literature
Among the classics of medieval Spanish literature, this course will present medieval “biographies” and oriental tales from Muslim Spain as well as the Mio Cid, the conde Lucanor & the Libro du buen amor.
Altschul 3 credits 215.491 (H) Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Literatures in
Iberia
From 711 to 1492 the Iberian Peninsula was a multilingual
and multiethnic society inhabited by members of the three
monotheistic faiths. This course will discuss the interactions
and literatures of the Muslim, Jewish and Christian
peoples of Iberia during Medieval times. Readings include
Ibn Hazm, Shem Tov, Petrus Alfonsus and Juan Manuel, as
well as Kalilah wa Dimnah and Sendebar.
Altschul 3 credits 215.497 (H) Chivalry in Spain
This course examines chivalry in the Spanish Middle Ages through literary and theoretical accounts. Readings include Arthurian, Antique, and Carolignian subject matter as well as Knightly manuals.
Altschul 3 credits 215.525-526 Spanish Independent Study
Staff 3 credits
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