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SPAN 6758

Contemp Span Am Short Story

Contemporary Spanish American Short Story

Three-Week course, second session.

This course will analyze with special attention short forms of narrative (short story as genre in its current forms), poetics, themes, and aesthetics of a literature that inherits and at the same time breaks with the tradition of the “nueva novela” from the 1960s. It will use some of the texts by Roberto Bolaño, Mario Bellatín, Ena Lucía Portela, Cristina Rivera Garza, Rodrigo Fresán, Jorge Volpi, Alberto Fuguet, Patricia Suárez, and others, studying the "new sensibility" produced in the historical framework of the new millennium. (.5 unit)

Required Text: Electronic material provided at Middlebury.
Subject:
Spanish
Department:
Spanish (& Portuguese UG)
Division:
Language School
Requirements Fulfilled:
Literature

Sections in Summer 2010, LS 3 Week Session II

Summer 2010, LS 3 Week Session II

SPAN6758A-L10 Lecture (Ruffinelli)