| Title: | Special Topics: Lit. & Culture |
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| Course Section Number: | SPA-477-01 |
| Department: | Spanish |
| Description: | FACE TO FACE COURSE. NOT AVAILABLE TO VIRTUAL LEARNERS. Spanish 477 is a senior level, intensive discussion/seminar style course that allows students and faculty to explore a particular genre in more detail than would be possible in other courses. Spanish 313: Theatre in Spanish will introduce you to the major figures in the development of modern Latin American theatre. The course will give us the opportunity to discuss, analyze, and write about the most important dramas in the contemporary Latin American canon. Our principal focus will be a survey of Latin American Theater will show us the Spanish roots of contemporary drama as late 19th century dramatists, especially in Argentina and Mexico wrote and produced plays imitating the zarzuela (genero chico) and the romanticism of peninsular playwrights like José Echegaray (1832-1916). We will read plays by Roberto Artl (1900-1942) in Argentina and Rodolfo Usigli (1905-1979) whose work paved the way for a distinctly Latin American esthetic and made a clear break with the Spanish-influenced theater of preceding decades. From there we'll look at younger playwrights who built on the foundation laid by Arlt and Usigli, paying special attention to the development of women dramatists in Argentina and Mexico, especially Griselda Gambaro and playwright I've written about, Sabina Berman. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 25, 2021 |
| End Date: | May 11, 2021 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/26/2021-05/04/2021 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Malcolm X Institute, Room 109
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| Faculty: | Rogers, Dan |
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