Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
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Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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PORT 6210 - [Brazilian Critical Theories]

(crosslisted)
(also SPAN 6210 )
Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2015-2016. This course is the required graduate seminar for Spanish graduate students.

P. Erber.

This course explores Brazilian intellectual discourse throughout the twentieth century.  Topics span a wide range of fields from literary criticism to economic theory, anthropology, and visual culture.  Departing from a broad definition of critical theory, understood as discursive intervention and inquiry into society and culture, the course will reflect on the use of this rubric to the Brazilian intellectual context and, more generally, on the significance of “theory” in the contemporary humanities.  Readings include texts by Roberto Schwarz, Silviano Santiago, Marilena Chauí, Roberto daMatta, Clarice Lispector, and Mário Pedrosa, among others.



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