Michael Predmore
OVERVIEW:
A recipient of the Fulbright, Guggenheim, ACLS, and NEH fellowships, as well as fellowships from the Wisconsin and Stanford Humanities Centers, Michael P. Predmore has published several books and numerous articles on twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature. Among his best known books are: La obra en prosa de Juan Ramón Jiménez (1966, 1975), La poesía hermética de Juan Ramón Jiménez (1973), Una España joven en la poesía de Antonio Machado (1981), and scholarly editions of Platero y yo and Diario de un poeta reciencasado, both published by Cátedra.
Courses
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ILAC114NAut2011-12
Preference to freshmen. For students with at least two years of language preparation. Focus is on principal elements and expressive devices of lyric poetry:multi-dimensional use of language, denotation,connotation, image, metaphor, symbol, paradox, irony, meaning, idea, rhythm, and meter. Readings include the best of major poets of Spain and Latin America: Becquer, Rosalia de Castro, Ruben Dario, Unamuno, Antonio Machado, García Lorca, Neruda, and Gabriela Mistral. Bilingual in English and Spanish with an emphasis on Spanish.
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ILAC224Win2011-12
This course will deal with the significance of the Spanish Civil War in Iberian, European, and world history, through the literary works (poetry, theater, and novel) of major Spanish and Latin American writers. The war is anticipated in the poetry of Antonio Machado and in the theater of García Lorca, dealt with directly in the poetry of Alberti and Hernandez, and of Neruda (Chile), Vallejo (Peru), and N. Guillen (Cuba), and treated in the aftermath during the Franco dictatorship in the novels of Cela and Sender.
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ILAC211Win2010-11
The major works of Neruda particularly Residencia en la Tierra I and II Tercera Residencia and Canto General. Neruda within a tradition of European lyric poetry from William Blake to García Lorca and Alberti; how this tradition was transformed in Neruda's poetry by the historical conditions of Chilean and Latin American societies and the Spanish Civil War.
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ILAC278Spr2010-11
This course will study the development of the dominant trends of early Iberian 20th-century lyric poetry, against the background of Restoration Spain (1875-1930), and the forces of resistance and opposition to its oligarchical and archaic social and political structure. We will concentrate on the major works of the three most important poets: Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Federico García Lorca. Symbolist-modernist poetry, the creation of symbolic systems, and the brief appearance of surrealism all define key aspects of this avant-garde during the first two decades. Special attention will be given to close stylistic analysis and to the historical and social conditions out of which arose the progressive intellectual and educational movement that gave rise to this renaissance of brilliant lyric poetry. GER:DB-Hum
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ILAC130Spr2010-11
The purpose of this course is to study major figures and historical trends in modern Iberia against the background of the linguistic plurality and social and cultural complexity of the Iberian world. We will deal with the fundamental issues of empire, independence, civil wars, republicanism, autonomy, and nationalism, all leading up to the Spanish Civil War of the twentieth century, which is a defining moment in modern Europe. The course will cover the historical period beginning briefly with the eighteenth century and reaching into the 1930s. The major figures will include poets, essayists, novelists and dramatists: Larra, Espronceda, Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro, Verdaguer, Galdós, Maragall, Unamuno, Valle-Inclán, Machado, and Lorca. TER:DB-Hum
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ILAC114NAut2010-11
Preference to freshmen. For students with considerable competence in Spanish. Elements and expressive devices of lyric poetry: multidimensional language denotation connotation image metaphor symbol allegory paradox irony meaning idea rhythm and meter. Poets of Spain and Latin America of the late 19th and early 20th century including G. A. Bécquer Rosalía de Castro Rubén Darío Miguel de Unamuno Antonio Machado García Lorca Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral. In English and Spanish.
