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Stanford Bulletin, Archive 2008-09
Stanford Bulletin, Archive 2008-09
Graduate courses in Spanish Literature
Primarily for graduate students; undergraduates may enroll with consent of instructor.
SPANLIT 206. Language Use in the Chicano Community
(Same as EDUC 242.) The significance and consequences of language diversity in the culture and society of the U.S. Experiences of non-English background individuals through focus on Spanish-English bilingual communities.
3-5 units, not given this year
SPANLIT 222. The Problem of Two Spains: Literature and Society in 19th-Century Spain
Representative literary figures including Larra, Espronceda, Zorrilla, Rosalía de Castro, Bécquer, and Galdós. Modern lyric poetry and the modern realist novel against the background of Napoleonic invasions, the loss of overseas colonies, two Carlist civil wars, and frustrated attempts to establish the First Spanish Republic.
3-5 units, not given this year
SPANLIT 225E. Theater, Society, and Politics in 20th-Century Spain
Ramón del Valle-Inclán and Federico García Lorca. The avant garde nature of their major plays and their engagement with social and political issues of the times including feudalism, the emerging liberal state, women's protest, class struggle, and civil war. Symbolism, expressionism, and realism.
3-5 units, Aut (Predmore, M)
SPANLIT 299. Individual Work
Open to department advanced undergraduates or graduate students by consent of professor. May be repeated for credit.
1-12 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)
SPANLIT 317. Documentary Cinema in Spain: Between Reality and Fiction
Focus is on the works of directors and films that employ the expressive resorts of fiction cinema to delve into the dramaturgy of the real. The trend in Spanish documentary cinema that has formalized an original filmic way of writing to create a new type of dramatic emotion in dialogue with the ups and downs of history, culture, society, and politics.
3-5 units, Aut (Ballo, J)
SPANLIT 323. Renaissance/Early Modern Seminar
(Same as HUMNTIES 323.) Focus is on how authors and readers from this period theorize various historical processes: the rise of European imperialism; religious conflicts and revolutions; new understandings of the self and the world; and the rise of the novel. Authors: Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Núñez Muley, Martorell, Rabelais, Camões, Cervantes, Montaigne, and Shakespeare.
3-5 units, Spr (Barletta, V)
SPANLIT 329. The Valencian Segle d'Or
Major works written in Catalan from the 15th century. Authors and texts may include: Jordi de Sant Jordi; Ausiàs March; Jaume Roig; Joan Roís de Corella; Curial e Güelfa; and Tirant lo Blanc.
3-5 units, Win (Barletta, V)
SPANLIT 342. The Duty of Mischief: César Aira's Writing as Cultural Critique
Aira's fiction as a prism on contemporary society, emphasizing phenomena such as consumerism, escapism, globalization, and the crossroads between visuality and the political. Topics include: Aira's place within and against the Argentine and Latin American traditions; dialogues with theoretical discourses of Jameson, Debord, and Derrida; novelitas as interventions; genre and gender; body politics; nonsequitur as narrative structure; utopia; science fiction as high culture; and relations to contemporary art.
3-5 units, Aut (Hoyos, H)
SPANLIT 343. Nations, Continents, Worlds: Ortega and the Ibero-American Essay
Theory of essays and modernity and conceptions of the Ibero-American essay. The search for national identify as the final phase of colonialism, 1911-1928, including Ariel, Meditaciones del Quijote, Visión de Capahuac, La Nacionaliat Catalana. Post-WW II recognition of the need for continent-wide thought that supersede national narratives in Europe (Rebelión de las Masas, Rapto de Europa de Zambrano) and the Americas (Ultima Tule, La Invención de América Mestiza). Acceptance of the Cold War that produces an essay that is cosmopolitan, universal, post-national, and abandons prior philosophical normativism.
3-5 units, Win (Villacañas-Berlanga, J)
SPANLIT 350. Roberto Bolaño: The Savage Detectives
The impact of Bolaño's novel in contemporary literature. The historical and cultural context of exile, Latin America as a utopia, the search for cultural identity, dialogue with other novels, the boom of the L.A. novel, the 60s, the 1968 student revolt, Mexico as an enigma, and literature as a way of understanding reality.
3-5 units, Spr (Ruffinelli, J)
SPANLIT 399. Individual Work
For Spanish and Portuguese department graduate students only. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
1-12 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)
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