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 texts: Calderón de la Barca, La vida es sueño (Cátedra, 1989 ISBN 9788437600925); Antonio Sobejano-Morán & Paola Bianco, Prisma: Análisis crítico de textos en español (Panda Publications, 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9818392-0-2).



Section D only: 9 dramaturgos hispanoamericanos: Antología de teatro hispanoamericano del siglo XX: Tomo I (La noche de los asesinos), eds. Frank Dauster, Leon Lyday, & George Woodyard (Ottawa: Girol Books, 2nd ed., 1983 or most recent) ISBN 0-919659-37-3.