Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies
Contact Details
Ms Clare Szembek
(Departmental Co-ordinator)
tel 020 7679 3109;
internal extension X33109;
email c.szembek@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Humberto Núñez-Faraco
(Head of Department)
tel: 020 7679 4332;
internal extension X34332;
email: h.faraco@ucl.ac.uk
News & Forthcoming Events
- BBC News Magazine - Vicky Pryce and Miguel de Cervantes
- International Conference - The Future of Hispanism
- London World Film Festival 2013
- Translating 'Live' Poetry
- Gained in Translation
- Dr Deborah Martin will introduce El último verano de la boyita at ISA's 'Staging the Future: Argentine Films in Dialogue' Series
- Graduate student, Kathleen Sparks awarded grant
- Alcalá Galiano Lecture
- LECTURE: Benigno Trigo (Vanderbilt University), 6 June 2012 at 11am
- Vacancy in the department
- Dr Claire Lindsay awarded a Dorot Foundation Research Fellowship
- Professor Stephen Hart's Documentary Summer School in Cuba
- Dr Jo Evans will introduce Mexican film, Miss Bala, at the Cineschool festival 2012
- Vacancy in the department
- Dr Jo Evans will discuss Pan's Labyrinth at the European Institute Film Day
- César Vallejo conference. 16-17 March 2012
- Final year student, Roberta Radu's prize-winning article
- Dept of Spanish and Latin American Studies, UCL nominated for award
- Final year student Roberta Radu shortlisted in Guardian competition
- Award for Dr. Maria del Pilar Blanco
- Alcala Galiano Memorial Lecture
- Alumni Events
SPAN2111
THE SHORT STORY IN SPANISH AMERICA
Course unit value: 0.5
Duration: One term (Autumn Term)
Day and Time: Friday, 2-4pm
Venue: TBC
Tutor: Dr María del Pilar Blanco
Assessment:
(1) In-class presentation (5-7 minutes) - 10% of final mark
(2) Three 500-word essays due throughout term - 20% of final mark
(3) Final essay (2,500 words) - 35% of final mark
(4) Final exam (2 hours) - 35% of final mark
Description
This course will examine the transformations of the short story from modernismo in the 1880s to García Márquez’s experiments with marvelous realism in the 1970s. Each of the authors’ stories will be studied on the level of both form and historical content. We will explore to what extent each story contains a commentary of modernity and modernization by paying close attention to issues of regionalism, cosmopolitanism, and the fluctuations between realism and wonder. The transnational scope of the course allows student to see the different manifestations of the short story genre during a century of dramatic literary, political, and cultural transformations in Latin America.
Reading
The texts to be studied in class will be taken from the following collections:
Gutiérrez Nájera, Manuel. Cuentos frágiles (1883)
Darío, Rubén. Azul (1888)
Lugones, Leopoldo. Las fuerzas extrañas (1906)
Quiroga, Horacio. Cuentos de locura, de amor y de muerte (1917)
Ocampo, Silvina. Viaje olvidado (1937)
Hernández, Felisberto. Nadie encendía las lámparas (1947)
Carpentier, Alejo. “Viaje a la semilla” (Guerra del tiempo) (1958)
Bioy Casares, Adolfo. “Trama celeste” in Historias fantásticas (1972)
García Márquez, Gabriel. “El ahogado más hermoso del mundo” (1968)
Vega, Ana Lydia. “Letra para salsa y tres soneos por encargo” in Vega & Filippi, Vírgenes y mártires (1981)
