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Texas State
University-San Marcos
Spanish
Graduate Courses
Spring
2010
Spanish 5311: Power and Desire in Medieval and Early Modern
Spain
Professor: Dr. Yuri Porras
Span
5311.252 Monday
2-4:50 PM Index
#362625
Span 5311.251 Wednesday
5:30-8:20 PM Index
# 361198
Description: Literature provides an exciting forum through which we
might progressively learn more about the relationship between power and desire
in Medieval and Early Modern periods in Spain. This course will pay special
attention to the diffusion of these concepts and to how they are represented,
imposed, oppressed, and celebrated. We will examine the role power and desire
play in the process of the construction of a national identity, and especially
study at the same time how they come into conflict, particularly through
gender, economic, political, racial, social, and ideological differences that
are envisioned, imposed, resisted, and even challenged in a variety of genres
and perspectives. Studying a wide range of Spanish texts and literary figures
within their literary and socio-political context, some included in the M.A.
Reading List (El cantar de m’o Cid
and La Celestina to Garcilaso de la Vega, Quevedo, Lope de Vega and
Calder—n de la Barca ), we will explore the problematic maintenance and legacy
of the Spanish Empire.
Suggested preparation: Concentrate
on the works and authors mentioned in the summary:
Alborg, J. A. Historia de
la literatura espa–ola. Tomos I-II.
Madrid: Gredos, 1992.
Del R’o, Angel. Historia
de la literatura espa–ola desde los or’genes hasta 1700. New
YorK:
Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc., 1963.
Deyermond, A. D. La edad
media. Traducci—n castellana de Luis
Alonso L—pez. Ed. Josˇ
Carlos
Mainer. Barcelona: Editorial Ariel, 1974.
Jones, R. O. Siglo de Oro:
prosa y poes’a. Traducci—n castellana
de Eduardo V‡zquez.
Ed.
Josˇ Carlos Mairer. Barcelona: Editorial Ariel, 1974.
Spanish 5314: Studies
in Central American and Caribbean Literatures
Professor: Dr. Luis Intersimone
Span
5314.251 Tuesday
5:30-8:20 PM Index
# 361199
Span
5314.252 Thursday
2-4:50 PM Index
# 362626
Description: This course will explore canonical works from the
Caribbean and Central America during the 19th and 20th
centuries. We will study authors such as Rubˇn Dar’o, Mart’, Asturias,
Cardenal, and Carpentier. Works studied will encompass several genres: poetry,
essays, and narrative. Additionally, the course will provide students with an
outline of critical theory, so that they can become aware of basic theoretical
terms and concepts in order to better analyze and understand these works.
Spanish 5318: Composici—n y Gram‡tica Avanzada
Professor: Dr. Agust’n Cuadrado
Span
5318.252 Tuesday
2-4:50 PM Index
# 362627
Span
5318.251 Thursday
5:30-8:20 PM Index
# 361200
Description: El objetivo principal de este curso es el
de proveer a los estudiantes con las herramientas necesarias para crear
discursos escritos de calidad, cuidando tanto la forma como el contenido. Para
ello, se partir‡ del simple resumen para, al final del curso, llegar al ensayo
acadˇmico. Asimismo, durante el curso se tratar‡n diversos aspectos
gramaticales que a menudo no est‡n demasiado claros incluso para los hablantes
nativos. Con el fin de contextualizar lo antedicho, se revisar‡ el gˇnero
ensay’stico en lengua hispana, desde el sigo XVI hasta nuestros d’as. Algunos
de estos textos est‡n incluidos en la lista de lecturas del examen comprensivo.