ILAC 299: Individual Work
Open to department advanced undergraduates or graduate students by consent of professor. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-12
| Repeatable
for credit
ILAC 305: Rhythm: Ethics and Poetics of the Premodern
Focus is on the notion of rhythm as a theoretical frame for the analysis of medieval and early modern Iberian poetry. Topics include Ancient Greek and modern conceptions of rhythm and the links between poetics and ethics in the medieval period and beyond. Authors include: Aeschylus, Plato, Aristoxenus, Maurice Blanchot, Paul Celan, EmmanuelnnLevinas, Arcipreste de Hita, Ausiås March, Garcilaso de la Vega, and Luís de Camões. Taught in English.
Last offered: Autumn 2012
ILAC 309: First Year Writing Workshop
This course enables students to develop the writing skills necessary in their academic careers. Course topics include writing in the discipline, critiques, and literature reviews.May be repeat for credit.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 3 units total)
ILAC 316: Realism and Surrealism in the Cinema of Luis Bunuel
Surrealism, realism, dark comedy, film genres transformed by Spanish director, Luis Bunuel in Spain, France and Mexico during the second half of the XX century. An examination of Bunuel's work from his Surrealist beginnings (L´Age d´Or, Un Chien Andalou), subsequent realistic films in Mexico (Los Olvidados, Nazarin), and a mixture of Surrealism and Realism (Viridiana, Exterminating Angel, Simon del Desierto), as well his work with dark comedy (Archibaldo de la Cruz, Belle de Jour, Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie). In Spanish.
Last offered: Spring 2012
ILAC 329: Luis de Camoes - Epic
Focus is on Camões's epic masterpiece, Os Lusiadas. Topics include empire, intertextuality, Indian Ocean Studies, history, prophecy, and poetics. Readings in English and Portuguese.
Last offered: Autumn 2014
ILAC 332: Race and Slavery in Nineteenth Century Spain
An analysis of the literature written in Spain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries dealing with the empire post 1808. Authors discussed include Blanco White, Baroja, Avellaneda, and Rusiñol, among others
Last offered: Autumn 2012
ILAC 333: Spain and the Transatlantic
Course will address a variety of literary works from the 19th century to today, current debates on transatlantic studies, review of recent scholarship, and history. Taught in Spanish.
Last offered: Winter 2015
ILAC 335: Materialism and Literature (COMPLIT 335A)
Exploration of vibrant materialism (Bennet, Latour) and historical materialism (critical theory) as a basis to approach Latin American commodity novels, i.e., those that revolve around bananas, coffee, etc. Literary works by J.E. Rivera, García Márquez, Asturias, Neruda, Magnus, and others. Taught in Spanish.
Last offered: Winter 2014
ILAC 336: Early 20th Century Iberian Poetry
This course will study the development of the dominant trends of early Iberian 20th-century lyric poetry, against the background of Restoration Spain (1875-1930), and the forces of resistance and opposition to its oligarchical and archaic social and political structure. We will concentrate on the major works of the three most important poets: Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca. Symbolist-modernist poetry, the creation of symbolic systems, and the brief appearance of surrealism all define key aspects of this avant-garde during the first three decades. Special attention will be given to close stylistic analysis and to the historical and social conditions out of which arose the progressive intellectual and educational movement that gave rise to this renaissance of brilliant lyric poetry. Taught in either English or Spanish depending on class enrollment.
Last offered: Spring 2013
ILAC 341: Roberto BolaƱo
The most universally acclaimed Latin American writer since the Boom, Roberto Bolaño has recently joined transnational literary canons. But what does that tell us about the phenomenon of World Literature itself? The class will provide an overview of Bolaño's vast oeuvre by considering nouvelles, selected short stories, and sections of the long novels The Savage Detectives and 2666. The focus will be on exploring the multifarious relationship of Bolaño and the world. Up-to-date critical bibliography includes readings by Sarah Pollack, Gareth Williams, Sergio Villalobos, and others. Taught in Spanish.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Hoyos, H. (PI)
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