S343 Modernismo Autumn 2003
Tuesday 2.15-5.05 60-62M

Professor Gordon Brotherston
Department of Spanish & Portuguese 260-215
telephone: [72]3 0661; email: jgbrothe
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 11-12; and by appointment

Objectives:

To suggest why the modernista movement is worth studying today, and to show how it affected literature in Spanish, paying special attention to questions of ideology, geography and culture; genre and poetics; and gender.

Resources:

Basic texts are available in the Course Reader (at SU Bookstore), supplementary photocopies, and the anthology Spanish American Modernista Poets ($20, refundable in the final week. Contains full bibliography). Other textual and visual materials will be provided where appropriate.
Guest speakers are being invited from in and outside the Department.

Assignments and evaluation:

You are asked to prepare a topic for a 10-minute class presentation during the quarter, which fits with the Syllabus. A final paper will also be due, to be written on a topic that you choose from a pre-agreed list. Respective weightings:

topic prepared for class and class participation: 25%
Final paper: 75% - TO BE SUBMITTED BY FRIDAY DECEMBER 5TH

Language:

Discussion in class will normally be in Spanish; papers may be written in Spanish or English

If you have questions about the above or any other matter relating to the course, please let me know and we can discuss it, in class or individually.

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Syllabus

1. September 30
Four reasons for studying Spanish American modernismo

2. October 7
Texts, authors, contexts. “Decadent” beginnings

3. October 14
Ariel

4. October 21
and Caliban

5. October 28
Cities: Havana, Mexico

6. November 4
Cities: Lima, Buenos Aires

7. November 11
Settings and cultural landscapes

8. November 18
Loyalties and legacies

9. November 25 [Thanksgiving]
Women talk back

10. December 2
Review

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