Course Description:This course introduces the principles of literary analysis, based on reading and discussion of Hispanic literary texts. Includes fiction, drama, essay, and poetry from Spain and Spanish America. Taught in Spanish.
Course Narrative: In Spanish 304 we learned about important literary movements of Latin America, for example, modernism, vanguardism, drama, medieval narrative, naturalism, the literary boom, and the 98 generation. In this class, we read various literary works such as short stories, novels and poems. We learned to analyze and see the meaning of these works. When it comes to poems, we analyzed the style, stanzas, rhyme, lexicon and keywords used by the author. We used all of these tools to find a deeper meaning to the poems. After we would discuss the works in the classroom, we would see the different points of views of my classmates, there was no wrong interpretation because we each could see the works from different perspectives. This class fulfilled MLO 3 because we focused on literature and we went in depth in analyzing literary works discussed in class. In addition, we created a presentation about The Generation of 98, a group of Spanish writers, essayists and poets who were deeply affected by the moral, political and social crisis triggered in Spain by the military defeat in the Spanish-American War and the consequent loss of Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba and the Philippines in 1898. All the authors and great poets included in this generation were born between 1864 and 1876. This class taught me a little more about Latin American and Spanish literature with all the readings we had over the course of the semester. It helped me to identify figures of speech and to recognize and understand the main messages and themes of each reading. SPAN 304- Presentaciones oral