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Course Description

Summary

This advanced Spanish course will examine the diverse literary manifestations of desire throughout a wide array of Latin American and Spanish poets that configure eroticism, the lover and the beloved in radical ways. We will discuss the varied approaches from which desire is written, from a surrealist perspective, through philosophical-poetic traditions and a Non-Western Cosmology, to an animalistic point of view. In order to develop an appropriate theoretical and contextual support, students will dive into secondary sources by critical theorists such as Roland Barthes, George Bataille, Guillermo Sucre, and Elena Castro, working with key concepts such as Eros, myth, and rite. Together, we will examine representative poetic texts by 20th century Latin American and Spanish poets including Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, César Moro, and Blanca Varela, before students’ individual research questions will determine content. Thereafter, depending on student interests, there will be ample opportunity to consider examples of poetic texts that work with themes of Eroticism from any time and place in the 20th and 21st century Spanish-speaking world. Co-requisite: attendance at 2 language events. Advanced Level. In Spanish