Spring 2010

Fall 2009

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SPANISH GRADUATE COURSES FOR Spring 2010

SP 200S.03      Avant-Gardes/Kino-Texts
Professor Francisco-J Hernandez Adrian

LIT 162CS and Art Hist/Visual Studies.  ALP, CCI, FL

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of political, cultural, and economic crisis across the world. What did this world look like in films, photographs, paintings, writings, and performances by Spanish avant-gardists working inside/outside local contexts? Our goal is to examine some of the ways in which Spanish avant-garde groups participated in trans-national experiments in visual/textual politics. We will perform critical viewings and readings of works by a select number of authors from the 20's and 30's. While this seminar focuses specifically on visual and textual culture, discussions and assignments will emphasize class, race, and gender in relation to international geopolitical scenarios.

SP 200S.04     

Professor Jose Maria Rodriguez-Garcia

Iberian Communities, 1865-1945.  ALP, CCI, FL

 This is a survey of modern Peninsular Spanish authors who highlighted new concepts of community, tradition, collective/national identity, and historical consciousness in the period under study. Many of these authors either envisioned ideal communities or set out to expose the fraudulent communities promoted by others. Featured poets may include Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro, Eduardo Pondal, Joan Maragall, Manuel and Antonio Machado, Rafael Alberti, Vicente Aleixandre, Luis Cernuda, Emilio Prados, Dámaso Alonso, Jorge Guillén, and Luis Rosales. One of Emilia Pardo Bazán’s novels of rural life (alternatively, one of Benito Pérez Galdós’s novels about saintly beggars) and/or novellas by Miguel de Unamuno (San Manuel Bueno, mártir) and Ramón del Valle-Inclán (Sonata de invierno) will also be required reading. Relevant selections from seminal essays about Spain’s uneven modernity will likewise be showcased (often by means of summaries and handouts included in a course packet or distributed by e.mail), as will Spanish paintings that conceptualize the same social realities found in the literature. As a follow-up on Professor Sieburth’s course on the Spanish Civil War, graduate students may be asked to do additional work (time permitting) with narrative works by Camilo José Cela and/or Jorge Semprún that fictionalize the experience of war and the trauma of combat as well as the recovery of memory.