S474  Hispanic Literature and Society (3 cr.)
Prerequisite: S331 and S332

Topic: Power, liberation, and anxiety in 20th-century Spain

Instructor: Professor Josep Sobrer

Description:
We will study the theme of power and how it relates to issues of
anxiety (and particularly male anxiety) and liberation/transformation
in literary works spanning the twentieth century in Spain. A secondary
focus of inquiry will be how the works analyzed embrace or reject
humor. Authors and works to read are:
Valle Inclán's La Marquesa Rosalinda, a theatrical farce in verse
first performed in 1912.
Unamuno's Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo, short fiction from
1920.
García Lorca's La casa de Bernarda Alba, a play from the mid 1930s.
MercP Rodoreda's La Plaza del Diamante, a 1962 novel.
Quim Monzó's La isla de Maians, short stories of the post-modern 80s.
Carme Riera's En el último azul, a historical novel published in 1994.

Students will write three short papers and take a final exam.

S474   #9532 (3) 5:30P-6:45P  MTWR  BH344   Prof. Josep Sobrer
(2nd Eight Week Class - Starts  March 10, 2003)