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The Graduate Program: Course Archive

Spanish & Portuguese Graduate Courses 2005-2006

Fall 2005 Graduate Courses | Spring 2006 Graduate Courses



Fall 2005 Graduate Courses

COURSE TITLE   TIMES   INSTRUCTOR
200 Proseminar M 1:30-3 Various
220 Introduction to Medieval Literature M 3-6 Rodríguez - Velasco
234 Latin American Poetry Th 3-6 Masiello
260 Cervantes W 2-5 Cascardi
280.1 La gauchesca : on Genre, State and Modernity M 3-6 Brizuela
280.2 Colonization of the Imaginary Tu 3-6 Rabasa
280.3 Caribbean Narrative and the Theory of the Novel W 3-6 Rosa
285.1 Recent / Contemporary / Postmodern Spanish Fiction Th 3-6 Iarocci
P275.1 Outlaws: Heroes and Marginals in Latin American Literature Tu 3-6 Slater


Spring 2006 Graduate Courses

COURSE TITLE TIMES INSTRUCTOR
201 Literary Linguistics Tu 3-6 Azevedo
224 Monsters of Desire: Excess and Alterity in the Comedia W 3-6 Bergmann
229 Modern Spanish Poetry Th 3-6 Dougherty
242 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory M 3-6 Iarocci
280.1

Seminar in Spanish American Literature: "Indigenismo"

 Th 3-6 Tarica
280.2 Literature and Law in Latin America Th 3-6 Ramos
285.1 Paleaography Tu 3-6 Rodriguez - Velasco
P275.1 Machado de Assis Tu 3-6 Passos

SPANISH 201: LITERARY LINGUISTICS

Professor Milton Azevedo

Literary Linguistics. (3) Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Two or three hours of lecture per week. This course explores applications of linguistic theory to literary texts as a foundation for fiction prose analysis, discourse analysis, and the representation of orality. Readings include theoretical texts on specific topics and chiefly literary texts in Spanish and Portuguese, in proportions appropriate to the make-up of the class.

This course fulfills either the graduate requirement of one course in historical or descriptive Hispanic Linguistics or the graduate requirement of one course in literary or linguistic theory.

Texts: Reader will be available from Copy Central on Bancroft Ave.



SPANISH 224: MONSTERS OF DESIRE: EXCESS AND ALTERITY IN THE COMEDIA

Professor Emilie Bergmann

This seminar revisits the comedia with a difference: the popular subgenre of cross-dressing and the mujer varonil, the carnivalesque and Baroque fascination with the monstrous. The seventeenth-century staging of excess rendered spectacularly visible those transgressions that threatened the hierarchical authority of social caste, "race," gender and sexuality. Thus, the theatre is a site of contradictory discourses, of licentiousness and social control. Female- to-male crossdressing was a theatrical device that drew crowds, as well as criticism, and demonstrates the comedia's exploitation of visual and verbal codes. The focus of this course will be on the social and aesthetic centrality of excess, alterity and the "monstrous". A seminar paper and weekly presentations on scenes from plays and on critical readings.

Texts: (online texts are available without introduction or explanatory notes here).

SPANISH 229: MODERN SPANISH POETICS

Professor Dru Dougherty

(In Spanish)

The seminar will approach modern Spanish poetry (Darío to Aleixandre) from the point of view of poetics. The structuralist understanding of poetics (Todorov, Riffaterre) will allow us to theorize the "perfect" symbolist poem in Darío. That model, tempered by semiotics (Culler) and philology (Lázaro Carreter) will set up a study of symbolism's inner tensions in Jiménez (voice), Machado (time) and Champourcín (desire).

The complete dismantling of symbolist unity by the " revolución ultraísta" (Borges, Diego) will open a discussion of avant-garde poetics (Paz, Bürger), a look at visual poetry (Bohn), and study of free verse. Four poets of 27 will instruct us in how the shattered poetic subject reacted to the loss of the symbolist dream: the staging of the subject's dissolution and dispersion (Alberti's Sobre los ángeles ); the exploration of "pure poetry" (Guillén's recentering of the subject by foregrounding form and resolving tension between syntax and meter); the flirtation with surrealism (Lorca's flight from and then embrace of subjectivity in Romancero gitano and Poeta en Nueva York respectively, which opens the way for a denunciatory lyric); and the celebration of multiplicity within the self (Aleixandre's integration of the subject within the cosmos).

Requirements: an early 7-page paper which will serve as a brief draft of the final research paper (20-25 pages); a written report to the class on one book listed in the bibliography; a final oral presentation of the research project.

Texts:

Alberti, Rafael. Sobre los ángeles. Ed. C. B. Morris. Madrid: Cátedra, 2000. ISBN: 84-376-0285-8.
Aleixandre, Vicente. La destrucción o el amor. Ed. José Luis Cano. Clásicos Castalia, 43. Madrid: Cátedra, latest edition. ISBN not available.
Bürger, Peter. Theory of the Avant-garde. Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
García Lorca, Federico. Romancero Gitano. Ed. Miguel García-Posada. Madrid: Castalia, 1988. Clásicos Castalia, 171. ISBN 84-7039-521-1.
García Lorca, Federico. Poeta en Nueva York. Ed. María Clementa Millán. Madrid: Cátedra, 2003. ISBN 84-376-0725-6.
Guillén, Jorge. Cántico. Ed. José Manuel Blueca. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 2000. ISBN 84-7030-802-5.
Jiménez, Juan Ramón. Antología poética. Ed. Javier Blasco. Madrid: Cátedra, 2003. Letras Hispánicas, 19. ISBN 84-376-0686-1
Lázaro Carreter, Fernando. De poética y poéticas. Madrid: Cátedra, 1990. ISBN 84-376-0887-2
Machado, Antonio. Poesías escogidas. Madrid: Castalia: 1986. Ed. Vicente Tusón. Castalia dicáctica, 11. ISBN 84-7039-474-6
An anthology of critical readings will be available at Copy Central on Bancroft Ave.


SPANISH 242: LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM

Professor Michael Iarocci

Introduction to literary and cultural theory. Each week we will survey a major trend, using class time to clarify analytical concepts, discuss the propositions posed by the readings and explore the lines of inquiry they open. We will couple descriptive overviews of major theoretical trends with reading and analysis of representative thinkers within each tendency.

Texts:


SPANISH 280, sec.1: INDIGENISMO

Professor Estelle Tarica

This course will introduce students to indigenista discourse in Spanish America, with a special emphasis on the indigenista novel. Though focused primarily on twentieth-century texts, the course will begin with a consideration of indigenismo as a colonial discourse, one distinguished by a particular mission: to "humanize" or civilize both the colonized populations and their exploiters. We will then examine the legacy of that indigenista mission, which triangulates indigenous people, regional elites, and the institutions of the state.

How does that mission contribute to the changing shape of race thinking in Spanish America, especially the discourse of mestizaje? How does it articulate with nationalist thought in the post-colonial era and become crucial to modernizing projects? What kinds of experiments in novelistic narrative does it generate, and how are these key to the development of the novel form in the region?

The course will be organized around seven major indigenista novels. Readings by influential indigenista thinkers, such as José Carlos Mariátegui, Manuel Gamio, and Franz Tamayo, will also be considered. Our secondary readings will draw from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, history, political economy, post-colonial studies, and the rich tradition of criticism grappling with the ethical implications of indigenista literary representations.

Required texts (available at http://www.latambooks.com)


SPANISH 280, sec. 2: FICCIONES DE LA LEY: LITERATURE Y DISCURSO JURIDICO EN AMERICA LATINA

Professor Julio Ramos

¿Cómo se habla ante la ley? ¿Cómo se debe hablar? ¿Cómo configura el relato de lo que vio? ¿Cómo se autoriza la verdad que cuenta? Este seminario explorará la relación entre literatura y ley en los siglos XIX y XX. Examinaremos, por ejemplo, la relación entre el orden lingüístico y el discurso legal en la obra de Andrés Bello; testimonios y reclamos de herencia de esclavos en las cortes cubanas del siglo XIX; el impacto de debates sobre el derecho en el desarrollo de la novela (particularmente Cecilia Valdés ) y el abolicionismo en el Caribe; varios casos de censura; el uso de la poesía como evidencia judicial, etc.

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SPANISH 285, sec.1: PALAEOGRAPHY

Professor Jesus Rodriguez-Velasco

In this course we are going to study the techniques and procedures of reading texts (both manuscripts and printed texts, both Spanish and Latin-American texts) and the techniques and procedures of editing them, that's to say, what are the theoretical and technical problems arising from the fact that when we want to read a text we need to have it an a somewhat stable form.

This course will partially take place at the Bancroft Library, and we will be working with first-hand materials.

Students will be required to spend a certain amount of time per week working on their projects in the same library. Also, in this class we will try to develop actual editions of texts (this will be the student project) and, likewise, we will try to define and describe (and, ideally, prepare) a website able to host not only our editions, but also future ones. All the materials, readings, etc., will be in an online reader.


PORTUGUESE 275, sec. 1: Machado de Assis e a Invenção da Alma

Prof. José Luiz Passos

Machado de Assis fundou a Academia Brasileira de Letras em 1897 e inaugurou com ela a idéia de uma literatura nacional autônoma, sem necessariamente estar baseada na representação do típico ou do regional. Este curso analisa em profundidade o desenvolvimento dos seus romances entre 1878 e 1908.

Através destas obras temos acesso a um panorama íntimo e político da passagem do Império à República e do trabalho escravo ao trabalho livre. Contemporâneo de Henry James e Tolstoi, Machado compartilha com eles uma forte preocupação com a representação da consciência e da introspecção, das máscaras sociais e jogos de poder.

O curso serve como um estudo de caso do gênero do romance realista, bem como da cultura e história brasileiras na passagem para o século 20. Entre os temas que discutiremos estão: a representação da mulher, o papel da crítica marxista na interpretação literária, ceticismo e realismo literário, a hipótese do valor moral e cognitivo da ficção, e a relação entre a forma do romance e a história.

A participação no seminário pode ser feita em inglês ou espanhol.

Requisitos: Duas apresentações (30%) e um trabalho final (70%).

Leituras exigidas: