SPAN 1413 - SHORT STORY IN SPANISH AMERICA

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This course is a survey of the short story in Spanish America in the twentieth and early twentieth century. Authors to be studied in a given year will include some of the following; Leopoldo Lugones, Horacio Quiroga, Maria Luisa Bombal, Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo, Felisberto Hernandez, Juan Carlos Onetti, Juan Rulfo, Elena Garro, Augusto Roa Bastos, Gabriel Barcia Marquez, , Julio Cortazar, Juan Jose Saer, Marvel Moreno, Ricardo Piglia, and Mariana Enriquez. Particular attention will be paid to writers who are also theorists of the short story (Quiroga, Borges, Cortazar, Piglia among others) and to scholars of the short story genre in Spanish America. There will also be consideration of the genre of the novella (including distinctions in short story theory between the long and the short), with examples from Bombal, Jose Bianco, Slivina Ocampo, Felisberto Hernandez, Ricardo Piglia and others.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 1250
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Undergraduate Research

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