Course Schedule*
*The professor reserves the right to modify the schedule when necessary
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January 12 Introduction to the course Overview of cultural traditions related to Death and Dying in Spain and Latin America
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January 14 Collective/Popular responses to Death: The Gender of Death Literary and Artistic Representations of Death and Dying (lyric, narrative, dramatic) Print out and read: "The Dance of Death" (text and image) and "Love and Death" (early ballads) Journal topic: If you were to personify death, what would this person be like?
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January 19 Death and Loss "Coplas on the Death of His Father" (Jorge Manrique, 1440-1479) Questions to answer
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January 21 "Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías" (García Lorca) Questions to answer
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January 26 "The Image of Misfortune" (Juan Carlos Onetti) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories"When Women Loved Men" (Rosario Ferre) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories Questions to answer for these stories
Journal Topic: As we have seen in the poems by Jorge Manrique and Federico García Lorca, each poet uses his art to come to terms with the loss of someone dear. This expression differs in the two poems according to the specific cultural and historical contexts of the time in which they lived. If you were to experience the loss of someone close, how would you express that loss artistically? Through a poem? a song? a painting? What would you include? (images, descriptions?)
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January 28 Eros and Thanatos (Love and Death) Eglogue I (Garcilaso de la Vega) "The Clearing" (Luisa Mercedes Levinson, 205-210) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories |
February 2 Death, Honor, and the Undeceived Selected Poems (Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz) Please read these poems. Journal topic: Choose one of the poems that you appreciated the most and explain why. |
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February 4 The Surgeon of His Honour Act I (Calderón de la Barca in Course Pack)
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February 9 The Surgeon of His Honour Acts II and III (Calderón de la Barca in Course Pack)
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February 11 The Chronicle of a Death Foretold (García Márquez, 3-24) Answer these questions What is magical realism? Here is another page of links to information on magical realism
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February 16 The Chronicle of a Death Foretold (25-95) Questions to answer ***Culture Reports Due***
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February 18 The
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (96-120) Questions
to answer
"The
Decapitated Chicken" (Horacio
Quiroga,118-124 Oxford Book of
Latin American Short
Stories)
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February 23 "Tell Them Not to Kill Me" (Juan Rulfo, 284-289) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories "Encarnación Mendoza’s Christmas Eve" (Juan Bosch, 247-255) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories |
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February 25 Death and Modern Dilemmas: Aesthetic and Philosophical Approximations "The Tragic Sense of Life" (Read: Miguel de Unamuno) "San Manuel, the Good" (1-11, Miguel de Unamuno) Questions to answer
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March 2 "San Manuel, the Good" (12-28, Miguel de Unamuno) Questions to answer
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March 4 ***Midterm Exam***
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March 9 and 11 Spring Break |
March 16 Political and Social Contexts: Repression and Death (Struggles for Independence) "The Slaughterhouse" (Esteban Echevarría, 59-72) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories "Buried Statues" (Antonio Benítez Rojo, 406-418) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
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March 18 A Single Numberless Death (Forward ix-xi; 2-88)
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March 23 A Single Numberless Death (88-156) Create 5 of you own discussion questions about the novel.
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March 25 A Single Numberless Death (157-171) The tradition of the "Calaveras" José Guadalupe Posada
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March 30 Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo) (1-22) Reading guide and questions Octavio Paz, The Day of the Dead from The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)
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April 1 Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo) (23-66) Reading guide and questions A helpful list of characters and possible series of events
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April 6 Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo) (66-124) Reading guide and questions
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April 8 Popular tradition: La llorona Life and Death: Literary Manipulations The Shrouded Woman (Maria Luisa Bombal) (Course Pack)
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April 13 The Shrouded Woman (Maria Luisa Bombal) (Course Pack) Questions "Unborn" (Augosto Roa Bastos, 330-336) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories ***Topic of final paper due
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April 15 Journey Back to the Source" (Alejo Carpentier, 221-232) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories "The Night Face Up" (Julio Cortázar, 337-344) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
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April 20 "The Garden of Forking Paths (Jorge Luis Borges, 211-220) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
"The Threshold" (Cristina Peri Rossi, 438-442) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
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April 22 Writing Workshop. Bring two copies of draft of final paper. One to be handed in to the professor. ***Turn in reading journal
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April 29 4:00-5:50 p.m. Turn in Final Paper
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