Graduate Courses, Fall 2001
FOL
5934 Poststructuralist, Postmodern, and Post-Colonial Theories:
Selected Readings and Applications (NOTE:
not listed in the Fall 2001 Schedule; see Graham-Jones for course
reference number)
Graham-Jones, TTh 11:00-12:15
Description: Designed to follow a general
introduction to theory and criticism (FOW 5025), this course will
function as both a seminar and a workshop: We will begin the
study of each theoretical approach by reading and discussing texts
that generally lay out the theory as well as critical articles in
which said theory is applied; then, as a class, we will create our own
readings--first, in group analyses of selected texts, and later
followed by individual analyses of texts chosen by the students. Among the theories to be
discussed are: Hayden White’s theory
of “metahistory”; postmodernism and cultural/aesthetic practices;
and cultural and postcolonial theories, particularly those revolving
around issues of race, ethnicity, class, and gender. The majority of the
theoretical readings date from the last twenty years, and the critical
articles to be analyzed are also recent, important contributions to
the fields of literary and cultural studies. Many of the literary works
analyzed are from the Spanish- and French-speaking Americas (in
English translation), but students will be encouraged to suggest
appropriate texts from other areas of the world. Every effort will be made to
tailor the selection of texts to the interests of the students
participating in the course.
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SPN
5805 Spanish Morphology and Syntax
Wyatt, TTh 2:00-3:15
Description: The basis of this course is an
experimental adaptation and elaboration of the analytical model
presented in Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures and his
revised model presented in Aspects of a Theory of Syntax. These landmark reference works
are particularly useful for those without a previous knowledge of or a
special interest in linguistics.
The approach is based on tentative formal rules for making
simple sentences and rules for transforming simple sentences and
combining sentences to make more complex structures. Students will be given short
assignments, will frequently work at the chalkboard, and will make an
analysis of 100 consecutive sentences from published, written Spanish
chosen in consultation with the instructor.
Text: SPN 5805 Notes at
Target Copy on Tennessee
Evaluation: The course grade will be based
on three examinations of equal value and the syntactic analysis due by
the last class day.
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SPN
5855 Advanced Spanish Grammar and Composition
Darst,
MWF 10:10-11:00
Description: Upgrades the student's
knowledge and application of Spanish grammar in the areas of speaking,
writing and teaching.
Text: Nicholas, Repase y escriba,
texto y libro de ejercicios.
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SPW
5275 Spanish Twentieth-Century Novel
Cappuccio, MWF 12:20-1:10
Description: Spanish novel from the
Generation of 1898 through the Post-Civil War period.
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SPW
5496 Spanish-American Women Writers
Graham-Jones, TTh 3:35-4:50
Description:
This
semester, the course will focus on women writers from Mexico,
Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, with a special emphasis on
narrative and theater/performance of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.
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SPW
6806 Research, Methods and Professional Issues
Arias, M 5:15-7:45
Description: This course will provide
students with the necessary tools for professional development and
research in the field of literary studies including: a) knowledge of
and familiarity with the resources at Strozier Library; b)
understanding of standard reference and (standard and virtual)
research tools in the field; c) appropriate research techniques; d)
understanding of diverse issues and approaches relevant to the study,
interpretation and teaching of literary and cultural discourses. The
main objective is to prepare students for the successful completion of
graduate work in literature and to give students the skills necessary
for preparation of professional
presentations and submissions of literary research in scholarly form.
Materials:
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Wayne
C. Booth, et al. The Craft of Research. University of Chicago Press,
1995.
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Joseph
Gibaldi. Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and
Literatures. 2nd Edition. MLA 1992.
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MLA
Style Manual. 2nd Edition. MLA, 1999.
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Additional
readings and activities will be placed online.
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SPW
6934 Spanish
American Modernism Revisited
Gomáriz, W 5:15-7:45
Description: Reading and discussion
of foundational Modernist texts according to their socio-historical
and cultural contexts. We will study theories of Modernism, from the
original ideas posit by Modernists through recent revisionist
research; we will analyze the Modernist discourse of emancipation, its
aesthetic and counter-cultural encodings, the rejection of bourgeois
Modernity, and the representation of the Modern subject.
Texts: El modernismo visto por los
modernistas (selection); Lucía Jerez, de José Martí; Ismaelillo,
Versos libres, Versos sencillos, de José Martí; Crónicas y
ensayos (Selection), de José Martí; Album de Cayo Hueso
(1891-1892) (selection); Cantos de vida y esperanza, de Rubén
Darío; Prosas políticas (Selection), de Rubén Darío; Azul...
(selection), de Rubén Darío; Sangre patricia, de Manuel Díaz
Rodríguez.
Selections from the poetry of Manuel Gutiérrez
Nájera, Julián del Casal, José Asunción Silva, Julio Herrera y
Reissig.
Selections from theoretical and critical essays on Modernism and
Modernity by Ivan A. Schulman, Evelyn Picón Garfield, Roberto Fernández
Retamar, Federico de Onís, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rafael Gutiérrez
Girardot, Iris M. Zavala, Angel Rama, Helen Tiffin, D. W. Fokkema.
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