Fall 2003

SPN 362K • Spanish Drama and Poetry

Course Description

This course provides an overview of the evolution of Spanish drama, from the late 18th century to the present. We will combine stylistic and semiotic analysis of the texts with a literary-historical perspective as we look at outstanding examples of neoclassic, romantic, realist, avant-garde, poetic, contemporary, and postmodern pieces. Thus the course lends itself to a better understanding of how aesthetic tendencies in general have evolved over the centuries at the same time that it provides material for contrastive studies of a specific genre: drama.

Grading Policy

Participation, in-class assignments 10% 4 “E-mail” analysis 10% Midterm examination 18% Final examination 28% 2 papers (3-5 pp. and 5-8 pp.) 8% & 8% 1 in-class presentation, related to the second paper 8%

Texts

Leandro Fernández de Moratín, La comedia nueva. Duque de Rivas, Don Alvaro o la fuerza del sino Benito Pérez Galdós, Doña Perfecta (Photocopy) Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Luces de Bohemia y Divinas palabras Rafael Alberti, El hombre deshabitado, (Photocopy) Federico García Lorca, Bodas de sangre (book) y Así que pasen cinco años (photocopy) Antonio Buero Vallejo, El tragaluz Fernando Arrabal, El cementerio de los automóviles. José Luis Alonso de Santos, Bajarse al moro Paloma Pedrero, Nueve obras en un acto

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