Instead, we will view the avant-garde in Spain within the larger context of the aporias of Modernity as experienced on an international scale, with attention to the attack on the institutionalized commerce with art. The course will consider vanguard narrative, poetry, theater, and cinema. Spanish artists' use of experimental forms marked by aesthetic violence and their reliance upon irony, iconoclasm, and play will be examined as the praxis of a cultural crisis that follows upon the discrediting of the bourgeois order and the radical critique of humanism at a specific historical juncture. Supplementary theoretical readings by Poggioli, B rger, Ortega y Gasset, Subirats, Rubert de Vent s, Breton, Brecht, Adorno, and others. This course is a history and an evaluation of the boom' in the age of postmodernism and globalization.
Students have a choice between a course paper and a final exam.
Specialists in Latin American literature are encouraged to do a paper. This seminar will discuss the movie production of various Lusophone countries in the context of postcolonialism. Readings will include a selection of articles and parts of different books pertaining to Film Studies, Lusophone Cinema, Cultural Studies, History, and Postcolonialism. Taught in English with additional readings available to Portuguese speakers. This seminar will seek to reimagine the question of testimony in Latin American literature, within and beyond its traditional framework of study.