Spanish

This course provides a study of twentieth-century Latin American literature. Topics include: modernism and post-modernism (José Martí, Rubén Darío, Delmira Agustini y Leopoldo Lugones); avant-garde literature (Vicente Huidobro, Cesar Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Oliverio Girondo, Alejandra Pizarnik); thought, creation, and criticism (Jorge Luis Borges); Simon Bolivar in literature; novels of the Mexican Revolution; the Latin American Boom; post-modern fiction (Rosario Ferré, Elena Poniatowska, Rosario Castellanos, Juan José Saer, Fernando Vallejo).

This course is divided into two parts. Part one examines Spanish narrative prose of the 19th and 20th centuries, taking as thematic reference the city of Barcelona and its writers. Part two explores Latin American culture through representative artistic works (music, writing, painting, and film) and their socio-cultural and artistic framework.

This is the second half of the course "Spanish of the Americas" (ESPANYOL D'AMERICA) which explores the linguistic varieties of Spanish language in Latin America and the United States. It examines dialectal divisions; sociolinguistic aspects of communication; influence from other languages in the Americas; and Spanish in the United States.

This course explores poets and poetry of Latin America with a focus on vanguard poets and lesser-known poets of the 20th century. Topics include: vanguard poets; poetry and militancy; poetry and neurodivergence; women as poetic and political speakers in contemporary Latin American poetry; poetry of dissent; poetry, race, migration, and trans-territoriality.

This course examines the parts of speech and meanings presented in literature and mass media. Weekly topics include: the factors and functions of semiotics, poetry and rhetoric; verbal versification; meaning, reference, context, situation, and theme; verbal and visual morphology; types of speech and strategy; narration and the effects of narration; manipulations in media, meaning, and speech; figures of speech.