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); Juan Carlos Onetti, Los adioses (any edition) (available on Amazon ISBN 978-663-2011-5).