Both texts and course will be given in English. SPAN 202 Readings begin with the diaries and journals of the explorers and of the women who participated in the Conquest. The course ends with Modernism, the first universal literary movement that begins in Latin America. This course begins with modern currents in Latin American literature as represented by the short story of Horacio Quiroga. The course continues with an examination of the major writers and poets of the twentieth century.
Special attention is given to the female Latin American writer.
This course gives students contact with the canonical texts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Readings encompass all the genres from epic poetry and ballads to excerpts from the picaresque novel and Cervantes s Don Quijote. The principal literary tends and most representative authors from the generation of 1898 to the Spanish Civil War. SPAN 202 Spanish literature from the Spanish Civil War to the present. SPAN 202 Introduction to etymology, phonology, morphology, and syntax.