This course is designed to provide students with a broad overview of the literature, history, and culture of Spain in the modern era (19th-21st centuries). We will examine the major aesthetic movements that have characterized modern Spanish literature, with a focus on the complex relationships that imaginative literature and the arts maintain with history. By the end of the course, students should have a solid understanding of the literature and history of modern Spain as well as a broad set of critical frameworks for thinking about, discussing and analyzing literature and the arts in Spanish.

Prerequisites: Spanish 25 Curso panorámico en el que estudiaremos textos representativos de cinco movimientos relevantes que marcaron la evolución literaria española dentro del contexto europeo general a partir del siglo XVIII hasta el siglo XX: la desilusión del romanticismo, los intentos de comprender y reflejar la sociedad del realismo y el naturalismo, hasta llegar a la experimentación narrativa del avant-garde del cambio de siglo y la vuelta al realismo “social” de mediados del siglo XX.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Requirements class fulfills