Fall Courses 2004
SPAN 70200 - Spanish Literary Theory: GC, Thursday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 3 credits, Professor Reisz, [47144] This course will offer a survey of the most influential theories of literature in the 20th century. Among the theoretical perspectives considered will be formalism, structuralism, semiotics, hermeneutics, aesthetics of reception, deconstruction, Bakhtin's dialogical principle, postcolonialism, feminism, and the diverse identity/minority studies which have been developed in the United States since the seventies. The first part of the course will basically focus on European and Anglo-American constructs. The second part will take into account the analytical systems born in the Hispanic world from the urgency to explain the differential traits and the specific production's conditions of their own literary enterprises. The analysis of politicized points of view will debate the ethical-political need of examining the gap between theory and practice, as well as the academic institutionalization of radical theories. SPAN 70300 - Introduction to Methods of Research: GC, Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 3 credits, Professor Lerner, [47145] This course will deal with problems surrounding the preparation of the critical edition of a literary text. After a brief historical overview of the origin and development of modern philology, it will describe the process and material elements that go into the production of the manuscript and printed text. The course will provide a brief examination of the philological terminology and its correct application in order to understand the main theories from different literary traditions thus far advanced in the field of textual criticism. Upon completion of the presentation of such a detailed introduction, the course will then focus on the analysis of the main types of critical editions most commonly in use. To this end, the course will examine very closely the contributions and shortcomings of the latest theories of textual criticism regarding the manuscript tradition, of textual bibliography and its printed tradition and the most recent proposal regarding the genetic or author's philology. Texts for the course will be announced later. SPAN 70700 - Linguistics and Cultural Issues in Teaching Spanish: GC, Monday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 3 credits, Professor del Valle, [47146] This course introduces linguistic, cultural and social topics pertinent to the teaching of Spanish at the college level to speakers of other languages and to heritage speakers. The course will focus on (a) the analysis of communicative methodologies and their theoretical underpinnings, and (b) the role of grammar in the language classroom and in the language curriculum. SPAN 80100 - Studies in Spanish Sociolinguistics (Language Standardization and the Post-colonial Status of Spanish): GC, Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 3 credits, Professor del Valle, [47147] What is the Spanish language? What does it represent? Who has the authority to settle linguistic disputes? From a language ideologies perspective (that explores the cultural, economic, political and social foundations of language and discourse on language) this seminar analyzes the nature of these questions and discusses potential answers as presented in various spheres of public life both in Latin America and Spain. The seminar will study the work of intellectuals such as Andrés Bello, Rufino Cuervo, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, or Amado Alonso, whose discussion of linguistic matters related to nation-building and to the development of the modern "comunidad hispanohablante." SPAN 81000 - Seminar: Studies in Medieval Literature: GC, Monday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 4 credits, Professor Di Camillo, [47148] This course will deal with the lyric poetry of medieval Castile and will focus on a few representative works: the Jarchas, the Milagros de Nuestra Señora, Libro de buen amor, Sem Tob de Carrión , Mena, Santillana and Jorge Manrique. Beginning with a critical evaluation of the various schools of poetry, we will analyze their underlying theoretical assumptions regarding their origins, functions and intended audiences. Special emphasis will be given to textual problems and to the meaning of the terms used to designate these schools, as well as to the language, use of rhetoric and techniques of artes poetriae. Similarly, attention will be paid to the reception, institutionalization and disappearance of these early examples of literary manifestation. Texts to be used in this course: Gonzalo de Berceo: Milagros de Nuestra Señora, ed. M. Gerli, Cátedra; Juan de Mena: Laberinto de Fortuna, Catedra o Castalia; Marqués de Santillana, Obras Completas, ed. A. Gómez-Moreno y M. P. A. M. Kerkhof, Planeta; Jorge Manrique, Poesía, ed. J. M. Ald Tesán, Cátedra o ed. G. Caravaggi, Taurus. Photocopies of selected poems of other poets will be given during the course. General and specific bibliography will be distributed in class throughout the course. SPAN 87000 - Seminar: Special Topics in Spanish Literature (The Theory and Practice of Editing Hispanic Texts I: Print Transmission): GC, Wednesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m., 3 credits, Dr. O'Neill, [47149] The course will study the development and evolution of the printed text in the Hispanic world from its beginnings to ca. 1830, with special emphasis on the medieval and Golden Age periods. We will also study the theory of editing early modern printed texts and will transcribe various texts. SPAN 87000 - Seminar: Special Topics in Spanish Literature (Metáfora y novela): GC, October 21 (2:00-4:00 p.m.), October 22 (2:00-6:00 p.m.), October 23 (10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.), 1 credit, Professor Senabre, [47150] The course entitled Metaphor and Novel takes as point of departure the theoretical categories of story and discourse, which are used to distinguish, on the one hand, what is being told in a literary work, and, on the other, how it is told. Both aspects cannot be obviously separated, but it is important here to stress that the story, that is, what is being told in a novel, in addition to the apparent succession of events in which the characters participate, can also be the narrative materialization of a metaphor, a metaphor that has a universal meaning and appeal. This theoretical approach will be pressed into service to discuss different contemporary narrative texts, yet this mini-seminar will focus on four novels in particular, C.J. Cela's Mrs. Caldwell habla con su hijo; R. Sánchez Ferlosio's El Jarama; G. García Márquez's El amor en los tiempos del cólera and M. Delibes's Las ratas. Students in this seminar are expected to have read these novels before it starts. SPAN 87100 - Seminar: Special Topics in Spanish-American Literature (Spanish American Modernismo: Sources and Sequels): GC, Tuesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 4 credits, Professor Montero, [47151] Spanish American modernismo was eclectic and freewheeling in its appropriation of various sources. In this course we will focus on three, Baudelaire, the French Symbolists and Emerson, in order to consider their impact on modernista writers, notably Martí, Darío and Casal. Using these sources, modernistas created novel points of view and new ways to relate to the world around them. This legacy endured even as the most obvious themes and techniques of modernismo waned or vanished altogether. From this perspective, we will then read some of the works by twentieth century writers, namely Agustini, Quiroga, Paz and Lezama, where a critique of modernismo opens the way to new insights and new literary representations. SPAN 87500 - Seminar: Studies in Galician Literature (Literature and National Spaces): GC, Thursday, 2:00 pm-4:00 pm, 1 credit, Professor Figueroa, [47152] "Literature" and "national space" or "nation" are concepts that constitute an obvious entity, explainable by "common sense". Yet their being obvious hides a not less obvious reality, the fact that this national common sense is something objective, socially shaped and socially built. The articulation of a literature within a "nation" implies the establishment of a double series of "common senses", of "beliefs", or rules of the game. These rules are national, on the one hand; literary on the other. We will try to study how these two logics interfere, and to analyze how they manifest themselves in the case of the s o called minor literatures, as is the case with Galician literature. PORT 88200 - Seminar: Special Topics in Brazilian Literature I: GC, Thursday, 4:15 pm-6:15 pm, 4 credits, Professor Garay, [47152] Description: "Ufanismo" is the lyrical exaltation of nationhood as reflected in the literature of Portuguese discovery and expansion in Brazil. This course will survey Brazilian colonial literature as it relates to the Modernist Movement of 1922: Pero Vaz de Caminha's "Letter of Discovery," Gândavo's "História da Província de Santa Cruz," Brandão's "Diálogos das Grandezas do Brasil," as well as representative authors of Brazilian Modernism (e.g., Mário de Andrade. Guilherme de Almeida, Oswald de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira, Cecília Meireles and Jorge de Lima). Interested students are encouraged to review K. David Jackson's A Vanguarda Literária no Brasil: Bibliografia e Antologia Crítica." Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 1998. Course requirements and Texts: 1) a final term paper in MLA style; 2) an oral presentation on a designated topic (all class and written work accepted in Portuguese, English, or Spanish). Although texts written in Portuguese provide the basis for class analysis, the student is encouraged to compare the original Portuguese version with translations (English and/or Spanish). Some texts will be distributed in the classroom and others will be placed on reserve in the GSUC (Mina Rees) library. SPAN 89900 - Independent Literary Research: GC, Variable credits, Faculty SPAN 90000 - Dissertation Supervision: GC, 1 credit,
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