Description

This graduate seminar proposes an exploration of the fraught connection between political engagement and textual innovation in poetry written in and about 20th Century Spain. We will discuss key texts by Max Aub, Luis Cernuda, Rubén Darío, Antonio Gamoneda, Federico García Lorca, Antonio Machado, Pablo Neruda, Chus Pato, Tomás Segovia, and César Vallejo, among others. Focus on topics such as violence, testimony, memory, exile. Theoretical and critical readings include essays by T.W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Michel De Certeau, Paul Celan, Carolyn Forché, Claudio Guillén, Eduardo Milán, Octavio Paz, Jahan Ramazani, Jacques Rancière, Elaine Scarry, Raymond Williams, and Slavoj Zizek.

Course Notes

Conducted in Spanish.