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Courses for Spanish
SPA 536Golden-Age PoetryA close reading of selected lyric poetry of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The course will have a workshop format: every week each student will prepare a brief analysis of a given poem in order to stimulate class discussion.Ronald E. Surtz
SPA 548Seminar in Modern Spanish-American LitThe landscape idea in Latin American architecture, visual and verbal arts, is an immediately political, social and historical one. There is a history of Latin American landscapes, including the landscape of modernism, of development, of revolution, and of (post)dictatorship. The purpose of the seminar is to bring out this historicity of the landscape-form, both in its material manifestations and its representations. Following a theoretical overview of some of the main concepts, we will work through a series of concrete examples from Latin American architecture, visual arts (including film) and literature.Staff
SPA 551Body WritingSeminar explores the role of the body in Latin American cultural, visual and literary traditions, with an emphasis on the relationships of power that operate an immediate grasp upon it, marking it, writing it, disciplining it, torturing it, and making it signify.Gabriela Nouzeilles
ENG 571/MUS 521/SPA 585Literary and Cultural TheoryThis interdisciplinary course examines authors who formally experiment with the writing of sound. To put a deep voice, a shout, or a minor scale to words creates a host of critical and creative conundrums for a writer; the reading of such arrangements makes parallel challenges for the reader. Such work is too often taken up with a despairing ethos: much is said to ¿go lost¿ in the transfer from sound to page. This course does not presume the demise of such runaway matter, but considers it as thriving with philosophical possibility. What does the impossibility of sound¿s capture make possible for literature and criticism?Alexandra T. Vazquez
Courses for Portuguese
POR 561Modern Brazilian LiteratureSeminar focuses on how intellectuals phantasize the uniqueness of Brazil and Latin America, and how they conceive the differences between "Iberoamerica" and the United States of America. Works to be read include Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Raízes do Brasil, Gilberto Freyre's Casa-grande & Senzala, José Enrique Rodó's Ariel, Octavio Paz's El Laberinto de la Soledad, Richard Morse's El Espejo de Próspero and José Miguel Wisnik's Veneno Remédio.Pedro Meira Monteiro