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SPAN6758A-L09

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: Materials in electronic form to be made available upon arrival at Middlebury.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
60597
Subject Code:
SPAN
Course Number:
6758
Section Identifier:
A

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SPAN 6758

All Sections in Summer 2009, LS 6 Week Session

Summer 2009, LS 6 Week Session

SPAN6758A-L09 Lecture (Ruffinelli)