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.
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.
- Term:
- Summer 2009, LS 6 Week Session
- Location:
- Ross Commons Dining 011(RCD 011)
- Schedule:
- 11:00am-11:59am on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (Jun 29, 2009 to Aug 14, 2009)
- Type:
- Lecture
- Instructors:
- Jorge Ruffinelli
- Subject:
- Spanish
- Department:
- Spanish (& Portuguese UG)
- Division:
- Language School
- Requirements Fulfilled:
- Literature
- Levels:
- Non-degree, Graduate
- Availability:
- View availability, prerequisites, and other requirements.
- Course Reference Number (CRN):
- 60597
- Subject Code:
- SPAN
- Course Number:
- 6758
- Section Identifier:
- A