News and Announcements
Hispanic Studies appoints Visiting Professors for Fall 2011 Term
Andres Soría, Universidad de Granada will be teaching HISP2620N and HISP1290S.
HS 2620N - The Generation of 1927 throughout the XX Century
Description: The poetical group of 1927 , as a synecdoche of a modern cultural process, goes through crucial circumstances of the XX spanish century: avatgarde, engagement with políticas, civil war, exile, resistence, and faces new challenges (of relationship between arts, gender, identity) . Close inspection of poetics and poems offer a privileged perspective to the broad landscape of the spanish literature during the XX Century.
HISP 1290S - Federico García Lorca in all genres
Description : Federico García Lorca was not only a lyrical poet and a dramatist, but also a remarkable musician, painter, and lecturer. One aim of this course is to introduce Lorca ́s world through these art forms and their mutual relationship, including also a wide range of music (flamenco, jazz, rock, contemporary), theater and film generated by García Lorca ́s work. We will read, hear, see and analyze some of these elements.
Jaume Subirana, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya will be teaching HISP1500J and HISP1500K.
HISP1500J - Contemporary peninsular narratives in non-Castilian language
Description: The contemporary literature in Spain is not only expressed in the Castilian language. This course desires to approach the abundant and diverse reality (not exempt of topics, nor tensions) of the linguistic plurality in modern Spain, and it does it through cotemporary narrative in Galician, Basque, Asturian and Catalan of some emblematic and recognized authors, as well as a series of brief “letters” in poetry or the literary sociology of four languages and literatures (or in other words, of four cultures) that if we only focus on the criteria of the number of speakers they could be considered minor.
HISP1500K - Representations of Barcelona
Description: This class proposes an analysis of the diverse processes in the construction of the identity through the urban culture and the aspects linked to it: literature, art, architecture, sports, and politics... Everything applied to one specific case: the city of Barcelona. Utilizing diverse materials (books, movies, guides, publicity) we will revise the representations (iconographic and discursive) of a ‘bimilenaria’ city centered in the period of modernity until the strictest actuality.