Course Schedule*
*The professor reserves the right to modify the schedule when necessary
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January 8 Introduction to the course Overview of cultural traditions related to Death and Dying in Spain and Latin America
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January 10 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 15 Death and Loss "Coplas on the Death of His Father" (Jorge Manrique, 1440-1479) Questions to answer
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January 17 "Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías" (García Lorca) Questions to answer
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January 22 "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 24 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 |
January 29 Death, Honor, and the Undeceived Selected Poems (Francisco de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz) Please read these poems. |
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January 31 The Surgeon of His Honour Act I (Calderón de la Barca in Course Pack, pp.49-62)
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February 5 The Surgeon of His Honour Acts II and III (Calderón de la Barca in Course Pack, pp.62-89)
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February 7 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 12 The Chronicle of a Death Foretold (25-95) Questions to answer ***Culture Reports Due***
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February 14 The Chronicle of a Death Foretold (96-120) Questions to answer "Encarnación Mendoza’s Christmas Eve" (Juan Bosch, 247-255) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories Presentation: Belinda Kabesha and Sarah Stuart
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February 19 "The Decapitated Chicken" (Horacio Quiroga,118-124 Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories) Presentation: Stephanie Roberts and Kristie Schmidt "Tell Them Not to Kill Me" (Juan Rulfo, 284-289) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories Presentation: Patrick Blakemore and Zach Warner |
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February 21 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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February 26 "San Manuel, the Good" (12-28, Miguel de Unamuno) Questions to answer
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February 28 ***Midterm Exam***
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March 4 and 6 Spring Break |
March 11 Political and Social Contexts: Repression and Death (Struggles for Independence) "The Slaughterhouse" (Esteban Echevarría, 59-72) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories Presentation: Ashley Dobbelaire and Laura Geiken "Buried Statues" (Antonio Benítez Rojo, 406-418) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories Presentation: Mara Putvin and Corrine Spencer
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March 13 A Single Numberless Death (Forward ix-xi; 2-88)
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March 18 A Single Numberless Death (88-156) Create 5 of you own questions about the novel.
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March 20 A Single Numberless Death (157-171) The tradition of the "Calaveras" José Guadalupe Posada
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March 25 Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo) (1-22) Reading guide and questions Octavio Paz, The Day of the Dead from The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950) (Course Pack, pp.91-120) ***Topic of final paper due
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March 27 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 1 Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo) (66-124) Reading guide and questions
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April 3 Popular tradition: La llorona Life and Death: Literary Manipulations The Shrouded Woman (Maria Luisa Bombal) (Course Pack, pp.121-136; pages 157-177 of work)
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April 8 The Shrouded Woman (Maria Luisa Bombal) (Course Pack, pp.136-173) Questions "Unborn" (Augosto Roa Bastos, 330-336) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories Presentation: Kelli Deemter and Nicole Shire
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April 10 "Journey Back to the Source" (Alejo Carpentier, 221-232) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories Presentation: Eric Brower and Megan Higgins "The Night Face Up" (Julio Cortázar, 337-344) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories Presentation: Kalli Cavadeas and Chris Harig
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April 15 "The Garden of Forking Paths (Jorge Luis Borges, 211-220) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
Presentation: Bridgette Flynn and Jessica Ochoa
"The Threshold" (Cristina Peri Rossi, 438-442) in Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories
Presentation: Mindy Taggart and Carl Walters
Review, Final Discussion |
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April 17 Research day for final paper
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April 24 4:00-5:50 p.m. Turn in Final Paper and Journal
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