SPAN 3370 - Baroque and Neo-Baroque: Aesthetics in Twentieth Century Latin America

Satifies Option 1.

Spring. 4 credits.

SPAN 2190 or CASE Q++ or permission of instructor.

G. Guerrero.

This is a survey course devoted to the study of the literary and artistic process that leads to the construction of one of the most important and influential cultural discourses on Latin America otherness through the last hundred years. Starting with Rubén Dario’s modernist vindication of Gongora and ending with an analysis of the work of Argentinean poet Néstor Perlongher. This course will offer readings from essential authors as Mexican Alfonso Reyes, Cubans Alejo Carpenter, José Lezama Lima and Severo Sarduy, Brazilian Haroldo de Campos, and Dominican Pedro Henriquez Urena. The goal of this course is to offer through the notions of Baroque and Neo-baroque an alternative, wide and comprehensive view of 20th century Latin American literature and cultural history.