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Title: Poetics of Ruins
Course Section Number: SPA-313-01
Department: Spanish
Description: This course explores the aesthetic, philosophical, and psychological dimensions of ruins in Spanish and Latin American poetry from the Spanish Baroque period to contemporary poetry. Ruins will reveal the melancholy of the Roman past, the anxieties of collapsing empires, and colonial devastation, as well as the splendors of pre-Columbian civilizations, 20th-century experimental writing, and contemporary takes on ruins that address trauma, displacement, violence, and exile.
Credits: 1.00
Start Date: January 18, 2027
End Date: May 8, 2027
Meeting Information:
01/18/2027-05/08/2027 Lecture Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:00AM - 11:50AM, Room to be Announced
Faculty: Monsalve, Maria
Requisite Courses: SPA-301 or SPA-321, SPA-302

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SPA-313-01
Poetics of Ruins
OPEN Spanish 18 0 / 18 / 0
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