Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: BORGES, CORTAZAR, AND LATIN AMERICAN FANTASTIC FICTION

Department: First-Year Writing Intensive

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Explore the precursors, poetics, and practice of fantastic fiction in two cosmopolitan Argentine masters. Appreciate how each combined local and transnational perspective creates startlingly unique works and worlds, bridging Europe and the Americas, modern and postmodern cultures, and bringing Latin American fiction to the forefront of world literature. This course is eligible for credit toward the major in Hispanic Studies.