Span 304-Intro to Hispanic Literature
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 this class I learned again about Hispanic Literature, but in a greater context than before. We began our studies by reading stories from authors such as Ricardo Palma, Jorge Luis Borges and Juan Rulfo. Many latin American countries were represented by their most famous authors. The story which stood out to me most was "No oyes ladrar los perros" for its theme of a parents love and willingness to do anything for their kids. The story followed a father and son on their journey to receiving care. The son was hurt so the father walked across a desert with his son on his back only to arrive to his destination to realize his son had already passed. Not only did the theme speak to me, but the authors usages of symbols as well. After our section on stories, we moved onto poetry. In the poetry section we learned about everything from versification to rhythm to literaria devices and more. This section quickly became my favorite as I love the challenge of understand a poems theme, and the hidden meanings behind specific words. Some of the authors we analyzed works from were; Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Jose Asunción Silva and again Rubén Darío. The two works we analyzed from Darío were "El Cisne" and "Canción de otoño en primavera", during this class I realized a trend in his works which included the usage of figures from Greek Mythology. From here I was fascinated by Darío and wanted to analyze more of his poetry. For my final project I wrote an analysis on "El Enamorado y la Muerte" by an unknown author. This poem was specifically interesting to me for the contrast between the one in love and the dead one. This class meets MLO 1 of Language Proficiency and MLO 3 of Literary and Cultural Knowledge.
Below is the final presentation I work on with a group on the Romanticism movement.
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 this class I learned again about Hispanic Literature, but in a greater context than before. We began our studies by reading stories from authors such as Ricardo Palma, Jorge Luis Borges and Juan Rulfo. Many latin American countries were represented by their most famous authors. The story which stood out to me most was "No oyes ladrar los perros" for its theme of a parents love and willingness to do anything for their kids. The story followed a father and son on their journey to receiving care. The son was hurt so the father walked across a desert with his son on his back only to arrive to his destination to realize his son had already passed. Not only did the theme speak to me, but the authors usages of symbols as well. After our section on stories, we moved onto poetry. In the poetry section we learned about everything from versification to rhythm to literaria devices and more. This section quickly became my favorite as I love the challenge of understand a poems theme, and the hidden meanings behind specific words. Some of the authors we analyzed works from were; Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Jose Asunción Silva and again Rubén Darío. The two works we analyzed from Darío were "El Cisne" and "Canción de otoño en primavera", during this class I realized a trend in his works which included the usage of figures from Greek Mythology. From here I was fascinated by Darío and wanted to analyze more of his poetry. For my final project I wrote an analysis on "El Enamorado y la Muerte" by an unknown author. This poem was specifically interesting to me for the contrast between the one in love and the dead one. This class meets MLO 1 of Language Proficiency and MLO 3 of Literary and Cultural Knowledge.
Below is the final presentation I work on with a group on the Romanticism movement.
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