Major Writers from the Spanish and Latin American Tradition

This course is planned for the students to do in depth reading of selected works from the Spanish and Latin American Literary Tradition and to respond to them in writing. It is planned as a seminar where students are required to make presentations, read, analyze and discuss verbally and in writing a wide variety of representative works from two major genres: prose and poetry. Authors such as Quevedo and Góngora will be discussed together with more contemporary writers like Cortazar and Borges.