DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE

DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
FALL 2015
GRADUATE SPANISH COURSES
REVISED 9-8-15
SPANISH 510
(3 Units)
DEVELOPMENT OF SPANISH MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, & GOLDEN AGE
LITERATURE
Wednesday
3:00-5:30PM
HARV 111
HARDEN
“The Literature of War: From the Classical Epic to the Picaresque Novel”
This course charts a path through the development of medieval and early modern literature in Spanish,
surveying the representation of war across genres and relevant national traditions. In a period defined by
religious and political conflict, the expansion and contraction of empires was at once aestheticized and
satirized, lionized and contested, and national literatures began to coalesce first around works with bellicose
themes. Although we will be concerned primarily with works of Spanish literature, brief forays into key texts
from other traditions (including Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, Camões’s Os Lusíadas, and poetry by Thomas
Wyatt and Louise Labé) serve to underline the shared classical roots and cosmopolitan nature of early
modern literary culture.
The course begins with Virgil’s Aeneid, whose influence upon the Renaissance epic we will trace in the work
of Ariosto, Camões, Ercilla, and Tasso. From the rarefied aesthetic of the epic, we will turn to satirical and
parodic depictions of war, from the medieval “Coplas de la panadera” through one of the last Spanish
picaresque novels, Estebanillo González, in which the pícaro is a soldier. In addition to a Cervantine play that
dramatizes the legendary Numantine resistance to Roman invaders, we will conclude by considering a
selection of lyric poetry that transposes the anxieties of conquest and cultural encounter into the Petrarchan
register. Short theoretical readings will be paired with these literary texts, including selections from
Aristotle’s Poetics, Erasmus’s Antipolemus, and Renaissance readings on rhetoric and literary form, as well as
contemporary critical work from a variety of perspectives.
All primary texts will be read in Spanish; theoretical and critical sources may be in either Spanish or English.
Students will be evaluated based on participation in class discussion, an oral presentation, and a final paper.
Selections from primary texts:
Virgil, Aeneid (c. 29-19 BCE)
Chanson de Roland (c. 1100)
Poema de Mío Cid (c. 1200)
Mena, Coplas de la panadera (c. 1445)
Palencia, Batalla campal de los perros contra los lobos (1457)
Ariosto, Orlando furioso (1532)
Camões, Os Lusíadas (1572)
Ercilla, La Araucana (1569, 1578, 1589)
Tasso, Gerusalemme liberata (1581)
Herrera, Relación de la guerra de Chipre y suceso de la batalla naval de Lepanto (1572)
Díaz del Castillo, Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (1568/1632)
Poetry by Thomas Wyatt, Garcilaso de la Vega, Louise Labé, Gutierre de Cetina, and Luís de Camões
Pérez de Hita, Historia de las guerras civiles de Granada (1595, 1616)
Cervantes, El cerco de Numancia (c. 1585)
Cervantes, Don Quijote, “La historia del cautivo” (1605)
Galán, Cautiverio y trabajos de Diego Galán (c. 1615-1650)
Anon., La segunda parte de Lazarillo de Tormes (1555, 1587, 1615)
Castro, Vida del soldado español (1611)
Anon., La vida y hechos de Estebanillo González, hombre de buen humor (1646)
SPANISH 511
TOPICS IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE, RENAISSANCE, AND GOLDEN AGE
LITERATURE
(3 Units)
TUESDAY
3:30-6:00PM
EDUC 331
KINKADE
“Desarrollo de la poesía española a través de sus textos: 1050-1650”
Este curso ofrece un repaso fundamental de la poesía entre los años 1050-1650, comenzando con los aspectos
básicos de la poesía clásica latina, sus tropos y figuras retóricas, y procediendo a un análisis de los diversos
géneros que integran el corpus poeticus español, desde las jarchas y la estrofa zejelesca andalusíes hasta la
poesía narrativa del s. XVII. Dentro de cada género se estudiarán los textos más importantes y la manera en que
ellos corresponden a su contexto histórico, con énfasis en los autores y obras que figuran en la lista de lecturas
de Maestría.
Todas las lecturas poéticas y su respectiva bibliografía se encuentran en el libro de texto pero de vez en
cuando se introducirán adicionales lecturas de textos y artículos que estarán disponibles en D2L. La nota para el
semestre se ha de basar en 1) la preparación y participación activa e informada del estudiante durante el curso;
2) los resultados de un examen final; 3) un trabajo escrito que consiste en una sinopsis del curso; y 4) un ensayo
que se entregará el último día de clase y cuyo tema y extensión se han de concretar en consultación con el
instructor.
SPANISH 530
(3 Units)
DEVELOPMENT OF SPANISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE: PRECOLUMBIAN PERIOD TO INDEPENDENCE
THURSDAY
3:30-6:00PM
PSYCH 205
MORALES
“Abarca pasado colonial y legado cultural contemporáneo vistos a través de diferentes medios de producción cultural
en América española como Portuguesa”
This course introduces students to the literature and culture of the Iberian Americas form the Pre-Columbian
Period to present. We will follow postcolonial theory, subaltern studies, space studies, and their methodologies
to approach the analysis of culture and its production regarding questions of representation, identity, race,
politics of knowledge, violence, and social justice. Attention to the impact of critical concepts in the analysis of
culture as well as their problems will be part of our discussions. In order to identify the concerns and the
debates from which postcolonial thought has emerged in the Americas, we will focus on the close reading
of primary sources by Columbus, Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Las Casas, Anchieta, Sepúlveda, Vitoria, Guaman
Poma de Ayala, Sor Juana, Martí, Ortiz, Rama, Mariátegui, García Marquez, and Menchú; we will work with
Náhuatl poetry, sixteenth-century maps, contemporary paintings, engravings of the era of Iberian expansionism,
and cinematic depictions of the colonial legacy in the continent. A selection of critical readings include
O’Gorman, Said, Bhabha, Spivak, Seed, Young, Adorno, Massey, Mignolo, Morris, Pagden, Pratt, Arias,
Moraña, Martínez-San Miguel, Beverly, Sommer, and Rabasa, among others. The evaluation component
consists of oral presentations, reaction papers, attendance and class preparation, active participation and a 20page final paper.
SPANISH 571
(3 Units)
TOPICS IN LITERARY THOERY AND CRITICISM
MONDAY
3:00-5:30PM
EDUC 502
FITCH
SPANISH 580C
(3 Units)
SPANISH PHONOLOGY III
THURSDAY
3:30-6:00PM
COLINA
SSCI 118
SPAN 580a and 580b provide students with the knowledge necessary to understand and critique current
research in Spanish generative phonology. In SPAN580c students are expected to put that knowledge into
practice by producing original analyses of outstanding problems in the phonological system of Spanish.
Accordingly, the course offers guided instruction in the production of original research in Spanish phonology.
After reviewing select recent literature, mostly within the framework of Optimality Theory, students will
identify areas of interest and will work with feedback from other students and from the instructor in the writing
and presentation of a conference length paper. The course assumes that the student is in possession of a solid
knowledge of the current literature, of alternative frameworks, and that s/he has the ability to understand and
read phonological analyses critically and independently.
SPANISH 581A
(3 Units)
FOREIGN LANGAUGE TEACHING THEORY AND METHODOLOGY
MONDAY
3:30-6:00PM
ILC 129
CHUFFE
SPANISH 582A
(3 Units)
SPANISH SYNTAX I
TUESDAY
3:30-6:00PM
EDUC 341
OLARREA
“Introducción a la Teoría Sintáctica I”
Este es el primero de una secuencia de dos cursos que sirve como introducción a los fundamentos de la teoría
sintáctica de las lenguas naturales, desde la perspectiva general de la Teoría de Principios y Parámetros--el
primer curso-- y del Modelo Minimalista--el segundo--. El objetivo principal del curso es enseñar los métodos
de análisis, razonamiento y evaluación utilizados en la construcción de modelos teóricos generativos aplicados
a la sintaxis. La base de datos a utilizar será la del español. Se prestará también atención especial a la
comparación entre las estructuras sintácticas del inglés, del español y de otras lenguas románicas.
Libros de texto:
Zagona, Karen. (2002). The Sintax of Spanish. Cambridge University Press.
Bosque, I. & J. Gutiérrez-Rexach. (2009). Fundamentos de sintaxis formal. Madrid: Akal.
Evaluación:
Ejercicios semanales (8 x 10%):
Examen parcial (teoría):
Presentación final
80%
15%
5%
Programa del curso:
Teoría sintáctica: Principios y Parámetros.
1. Objetivo de la Lingüística. Competencia y actuación. Recursividad. Gramática Universal.
Principios/parámetros. Reglas descriptivas/ prescriptivas. Gramaticalidad/aceptabilidad.
2. La Sintaxis. Constituyentes sintácticos. Categorías gramaticales. Estructura sintagmática. La teoría X barra.
3. Teoría de papeles temáticos. Posiciones temáticas y posiciones argumentales. Asignadores de papeles
temáticos. La proyección del léxico en la sintaxis.
4. Movimiento de constituyentes. Muévase alpha. Tipos de movimiento. Subyacencia. Principio de las
Categorías Vacías. Barreras y rección apropiada.
5. Teoría del Caso. Caso abstracto. Mando de constituyente y rección. Caso estructural e inherente.
Restricciones temáticas en la asignación de caso. Caso estructural y concordancia.
6. Teoría del ligamiento. Los tres principios del ligamiento.
7. Las categorías vacías. Principio de proyección. La categoría pro. Las huellas del sintagma nominal. Huellas
de movimiento.
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SPANISH 583A
SPANISH PHONETICS I: THE PRODUCTION OF SPANISH
(3 Units)
TUE/THUR
6:00-7:15PM
MLNG 302
SIMONET
This course serves as an introduction to the study of speech production from the perspective of experimental
linguistic phonetics. In particular, it serves as an introduction to the study of Spanish phonetics, although the
focus will be on current research topics in phonetic research that have been addressed with Spanish data
(Iberian Romance, actually) rather than on a characterization or description of Spanish sounds. We will
investigate the production (articulatory phonetics) and transmission (acoustic phonetics) of speech sounds, and
we will be concerned with learning the basic characteristics of phonetic research as it is done within the
experimental, instrumental paradigm.
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SPANISH 584A
SPANISH SOCIOLINGUISTICS I: LANGAUGE CONTACT
(3 Units)
WEDNESDAY
3:00-5:30PM
MLNG 504
CARVALHO
This course presents an overview of sociolinguistic issues pertaining to the contact between languages in
general and to the contact between Spanish with other languages in particular. In the first half of the semester,
we will discuss basic concepts that emerge in this field of inquiry, such as language choice, diglossia,
maintenance, shift, attitudes, ideology, and identity. These models will help us contextualize the linguistic
analyses that we will carry out in the second part of the semester, when we will investigate several language
contact phenomena, including grammatical convergence, code-switching, borrowing, and attrition. We will read
about speech communities where Spanish is the majority language (in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America)
and the minority language (in the United States). We will compare these situations and discuss how linguistic
and extra-linguistic factors influence the output of language contact, from both qualitative and quantitative
viewpoints. In addition to familiarizing ourselves with the sociolinguistic situation of several sociopolitical and
geographic contexts where Spanish coexists with other languages, we will develop skills to discuss and assess
theoretical frames and methodological procedures in the field of contact sociolinguistics.
Course Requirements
1) Weekly readings and reaction papers
2) Well-informed participation in class discussions.
3) One presentation on a topic chosen by the student.
4) Research project: An empirical study on a topic related to a sociolinguistic aspect of a contact variety of
Spanish, with the following components:
a) Data collection
b) Written proposal
c) Oral presentation
d) Abstract
e) Written version
Course Objectives
This course is intended to provide students with the opportunity to read intensively on a variety of
sociolinguistic topics related to Spanish in contact. The discussions that these readings will originate, in
addition to the research project each student will engage in, have 3 main objectives:
1) to introduce students to theoretical models and research findings in the field of contact sociolinguistics.
2) to expand students' awareness of social aspects of bilingualism and their implication to the analysis of
contact varieties.
3) to provide students with the necessary tools to develop their own research agenda on a specific topic
related to a contact variety of Spanish.
SPANISH 696A
(3 Units)
SPANISH PENINSULAR LITERATURE
WEDNESDAY
6:00-8:30PM
MLNG 401
COMPITELLO
“Tiempos de silencio: La ficción moderna española y la resistencia social”
Este curso examina la trayectoria de la ficción narrativa española moderna y contemporánea. Especialmente
importante al análisis es cómo la narrativa navega la línea entre innovación formal y resistencia social. El punto
de partida del estudio es probablemente la novela más significativa de la segunda mitad del siglo 20 en España,
Tiempo de silencio de Luis Martín Santos que redefina esta dinámica tensión. La lectura de este texto servirá
como fulcro para examinar como obras anteriores y posteriores a la novela de Martín Santos abarca su posición
como obra literaria y de crítica social ahora más importante que nunca dada la trayectoria de resistencia sociales
y el desencanto con formas de gobiernos.
PORTUGUESE 563 TOPICS IN LUSO-BRAZILIAN LITERATURE
(3 Units)
THURSDAY
3:30-6:00PM
PSYCH 309
BEZERRA
“Ficção contemporânea em língua portuguesa: a busca por novos paradigmas”
Esse curso enfocará na literatura contemporânea produzida em países de língua portuguesa. A literatura vai ser
percebida como um espaço mediatizador que nos permite refletir sobre algumas da tensões e contradições que
compõem o complexo mosaico nacional e internacional. O objetivo é colocar em diálogo autores canônicos com
escritores que estão despontando no cenário cultural atual. Pretende-se analizar a forma como diferentes
narrativas refletem sobre questões como raça, cidadania, sexualidade e modernização. Alguns dos teóricos que
nos ajudarão a pensar essas questões são Marilena Chauí, Fábio Durão, Roberto da Matta, Néstor Canclini,
Zygmunt Bauman, Kabengele Munanga e James Holston