Gonzalez 350.623 Narrative of Post-Franco Spain Authors include Soledad Puertolas, Javier Marias, Alvaro Pombo, Rosa Montero, Eduardo Mendoza, Cristina Fernandez Cubas, etc. This course will trace the evolution from romanticism to symbolism and finally to vanguard poetics, by examining representations of self in the poetry of Becquer, Rosalia de Castro, Antonio Machado, and Lorca. An examination of modernism and modernity in 1920s Spain, set in the larger context of post-WWI Europe. The intersection of modern self-reflexivity with history and culture will be explored in Galdos's Canovas, Goytisolo's Reivindicacion del Conde Don Julian, Martin Gaite's El cuarto de atras, Munoz Molina's Beatus ille, etc. This course explores the question of feminine markings in the text.
Special attention is paid to current debates in theory of genre.
Latin American contributions to this debate receive special emphasis. Castro-Klaren 350.645 World Texts in Spanish Modern fiction and the epic tradition from modernism to postmodernism. A seminar on the writings and status of 19th-century women writers in Spain. The course will use a combined approach of close reading and feminist-cultural studies strategies. This course examines the displacement of the subject in modern travel narrative written in Latin America and about Latin America.