This course will introduce the graduate student to the techniques of literary analysis, critical thinking, reading, and interpreting Hispanic literary texts. It is divided into three segments, each of which is devoted to the analytic strategies pertinent to one major genre: narrative, poetry, and drama. Each student will write several papers and actively participate in class discussions. (1 unit)



Required text: Juan Carlos Onetti, Los Adioses (Editorial Punto de Lectura, 200). ISBN 978-84-663-2011-5. Bibliography and other readings will be provided in electronic form.



Additional required text for Section E: 9 dramaturgos hispanoamericanos: Antología de teatro hispanoamericano del siglo XX: Tomo I (Corona de sombra), eds. Frank Dauster, Leon Lyday, & George Woodyard (Ottawa: Girol Books, 2nd ed., 1983 or most recent). ISBN 0-919659-37-3.



Recommended Text: Angelo Marchese, & Joaquín Forradellas, Diccionario de retórica, crítica y terminología literaria (Barcelona: Ariel).