SPAN6758A-L12
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.
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.
- Term:
- Summer 2012, LS 3 Week Session II
- Location:
- Carr 005(CRH 005)
- Schedule:
- 10:00am-10:59am on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (Jul 27, 2012 to Aug 17, 2012)
- 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):
- 60363
- Subject Code:
- SPAN
- Course Number:
- 6758
- Section Identifier:
- A