Middlebury

SPAN 6773

Philology Journalism & Lit

Modernismo: Philology, Journalism & Literature

A comprehensive study of the first autonomous Spanish American literary movement and its foundational role in modern Spanish American literature. Modernismo’s cosmopolitanism and its relation to the discourses of philology, journalism, and literature are examined through readings of modernista poetry, novels, short stories, essays, and crónicas. Authors to be discussed include Delmira Agustini, Rubén Darío, Manuel Díaz Rodríguez, Julián del Casal, Enrique Gómez Carrillo, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Julio Herrera y Reissig, Enrique Larreta, Leopoldo Lugones, José Martí, José Enrique Rodó, José Asunción Silva, and José María Vargas Vila. (1 unit)

Required texts: José Martí, Lucía Jerez (Madrid: Cátedra, 1994) (ISBN: 978-8437612508); José Enrique Rodó, Ariel. Liberalismo y jacobinismo (Mexico: Porrúa, 1997, (ISBN-13: 9789700755410).
Subject:
Spanish
Department:
Spanish (& Portuguese UG)
Division:
Language School
Requirements Fulfilled:
Literature

Sections

Summer 2015 Language Schools, LS 6 Week Session

SPAN6773A-L15 Lecture (Gonzalez-Perez)

Summer 2005, LS 6 Week Session

SPAN6773A-L05 Lecture (Opere)