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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2023 |
Registration ID | SPANB243001 |
Course Title | Temas de la literatura hispana-Desde la oscura raiz del grito |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies |
Instructor | Martinez Bachrich,Roberto |
Times and Days | MW 02:40pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | OL116 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1912 This is a topic course. Topics vary. Prerequisite: SPAN B120; or another 200-level. This course can satisfy the Writing Intensive (WI) requirement for the Spanish major. Current topic description: The early writings of the New World straddle between history and fantasy, fact and legend. This period is rich in chronicles that made no distinction between real and imaginary places and creatures, at a time when ambitious colonial enterprises were guided by myths (finding El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, Paradise.) This course examines fantasies of imperial imagination that have persisted to this day by looking at both early chronicles and recent films. Critical Interpretation (CI). Counts toward Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies.; Current topic description: Desde "la oscura raiz del grito": afectos y emociones en la obra de García Lorca: The poems and plays written by Federico García Lorca during the first half of the 20th century are full of what Sianne Ngai calls ugly feelings: shame, anxiety, fear, envy, sorrow, jealousy, pain. These minor and generally unprestigious emotions have, however, the power to teach us important lessons that resonate with real social and historical experiences and truths. They often appear as the impossibility of desire to find its way, or life impulses to overcome the attraction of death, or the quest for freedom facing, time and again, different forms of power and tyranny. What cannot fully become life, García Lorca makes it breathe through powerful images and verbal music. This course will explore, through the lens of affect theory, a selection of García Lorcas poetry (Romancero gitano, Poeta en Nueva York, Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejía, Sonetos del amor oscuro) and tragedies (Yerma, Bodas de sangre, La casa de Bernarda Alba), literary pieces that also come, as García Lorca himself would say, from the quivering dark roots of the scream. Taught in Spanish. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI), Writing Intensive; Haverford: A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (A), Humanities (HU) Enrollment Cap: 15; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Senior; Major/Minor/Concentration; Junior; Permission of Instructor; |
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