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Winter 2003
This information effective for Winter 2003. Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Spanish Literature
[LTSP-102B]
102B.
Romanticismo, Realismo, Modernismo
Winter 2003
Instructor: Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal
157 Merrill, 459-2701/459-2855
E-mail: lourdes@ucsc.edu
Course Description:
Through reading
and critical discussions of short stories, essays, novels, poetry, and
literary criticism, this course follows the manifestation of the growing
consciousness of the Spanish American writer during the 19th century and
first decade of the 20th: discovery of native themes, imitation, and transculturation
of European aesthetic models and theories, search for a "new language,"
both literally and figuratively, to express the independent spirit of
the newly established Hispanic American Republics. The course will focus
on the ways in which these 19th-century texts contributed to literary
movements, such as Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism, the ways they
departed or resignified them, and the ways in which ‘modernismo"
initiated a new sensibility, paving the way for the Latin American vanguard
movements of the twentieth century.
Texts:
- Gargiño,
De Costa, et al., Huellas de las literaturas hispanoaméricanas
- Clorinda
Matto de Turner, Aves sin nido
- Manuel
Zeno Gandía, La charca
- Reader
(available at Slug Books)
Course Evaluation:
- Regular
Attendance and well informed participation (30% of the final
grade). Note: Those who miss more that three (3) classes,
or who come unprepared for class discussions, will not pass this
course.
- A mid-term
(30% of the final grade)
- Four typewritten, double spaced, 2-3 page critical response due at the end of each reading unit (40% of the final grade)