Honors Course Description
COURSE OUTLINE FOR 270-H,� �Honors in Spanish Seminar�
Dr. Pilar Alvarez-Rubio
Requirements:� Admission to Spanish Honors Program.
Texts: Cervantes y Saavedra, Miguel.� One of the �Exemplary novels�
����������� Garc�a M�rquez, Gabriel. Cien a�os de soledad
����������� Raman Selden and Peter Widdowson, A Reader�s Guide to Contemporary Literary
����������� Theory.� Latest edition.
����������� Rulfo, Juan. Pedro P�ramo
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����������� Course Reader:
Part I: related works to primary texts by theorists and critics from/about Latin America and Spain: A. Rama, A. Cornejo Polar, Fern�ndez Retamar, M. Benedetti, C. Fuentes, O. Paz, J. Franco,� J. Ludmer, B. Pastor, A.M. Garibay, G. Guti�rrez, J. Mar�as, Ortega y Gasset,� G.G. ������ Brown, A. Deyermond, M. Le�n Portilla, etc.
����������� Part II: selection of primary texts that will include prose, poetry, essay, and drama.
Evaluation:� One research paper (15 pages).� This paper will eventually become the Honors Thesis,which is to be completed as an independent study in the following semester (min. 30 pages),� 30%
����������������������� Two take-home midterm exams,� 30%
����������������������� Participation in assigned discussion pannels,� 15%
���������������������� Individual presentation on research,� 25%
Tentative Schedule
Week 1: Medieval Literature
Introduction to the course. Primary texts: El Cid (selection).� Partial screening of El Cid by TVE.�
Week 2: Golden Age Prose
Primary texts: El Cid (selection), Jarchas, Sem Tob, La Celestina
Critical and theoretical readings:� E.R. Curtius, �Heroes and Rulers�
Week 3: Golden Age Prose
Cervantes, La gitanilla.
Lazarillo de Tormes (Part I)
Critical and theoretical readings: Am�rico Castro, �El pensamiento de Cervantes�
Reader-oriented theories
Week 4: Golden Age Poetry and Drama
Theatre - Lope de Vega: �Fuente Ovejuna�, and Calder�n: �La vida es sue�o� (selecci�n)
Barroque poetry: G�ngora, Quevedo
Critical and theoretical readings: J. A. Maravall, �La cultura del Barroco: una estructura hist�rica�
Week 5: Pre-Columbian Literatures
Theatre: Ollantay �(selection)
Poetry: quechua and n�huatl
Critical and theoretical readings: J. M. Arguedas, Introduction to Ollantay
Structuralism - Metaphor and mentonimy
Week 6: Colonial Literature I
American Barroque - Sor Juana: sonetos and �La respuesta�
Cr�nicas - Inca Garcilaso de la Vega: Comentarios reales (selection)
Critical/theoretical readings: A. Cornejo Polar, �El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega o la armon�a imposible�. Feminist theories
Week 7: Colonial Literature II
Colonial Chronicles:� Guam�n Poma de Ayala (selection)
Bernal D�az del Castillo (selection)
Critical and theoretical readings:Jean Franco, Plotting Women (Chapter on Sor Juana)
Week 8: XIX Century Spain
Romanticism: G.A. B�cquer, poetry and prose.
�J. de Zorrilla, Juan Tenorio (selection)
Critical and theoretical readings: D.L. Shaw, Hist. de la lit. espa�ola, Cap. 7
Psychoanaytic theories
Week 9: XIX Century Latin America
J. F.Lizardi: El periquillo sarniento (selection)
J. Mart�: �Nuestra Am�rica�
Critical and theoretical readings: Fern�ndez Retamar on Mart�. Marxist theories
Week 10: Spain�s Prose, XX Century
Generaci�n del 98 - Unamuno: �Del sentimiento tr�gico de la vida�
Critical and theoretical readings: Ortega y Gasset: �Espa�a invertebrada�
Week 11: Spain�s Prose, XX Century
Civil War & Exile - R. Sender: Requiem por un campesino espa�ol
Critical and theoretical readings: G.G. Brown, �La novela del exilio�
New Historicism
Week 12: Spain�s Poetry, XX Century
Antonio Machado
Garc�a Lorca
Juan Ram�n Jim�nez
Critical and theoretical readings: Devoto and Spitzer, �Tradiciones y t�cnicas en la poes�a de Lorca�
Week 13: Latin America�s Prose, XX Century
Novel of the Mexican Revolution - M. Azuela: Los de abajo
The Vanguard - Borges: �El Aleph�
Post-Boom: Rosario Ferr�, �Amalia�
Critical and theoretical readings: Rama, Angel. �Transculturaci�n literaria�
Postcolonial theories
Week 14: Latin America�s Prose, XX Century
Magic Realism and the �Boom� - Garc�a M�rquez: Cien a�os de soledad
Critical and theoretical readings: Carpentier, Alejo. �Pr�logo� a El reino de este mundo
Week 15: Latin America�s Prose, XX Century
Garc�a M�rquez: Cien a�os de soledad
Critical and theoretical readings: Josefina Ludmer, Cien a�os de soledad: una interpretaci�n (selection)
Week 16: Latin America�s Poetry, XX Century
Dar�o, Neruda, Mistral, Storni, Vallejo, Guill�n, Cardenal, Paz
Critical and theoretical readings: Benedetti, Mario.� Los poetas comunicantes (selection)
