Course Catalog - 2015-2016

     

SPAN 389 - CONTEMP MEX SHORT FICTION

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN SHORT FICTION
Department: *Span Port & Latin Am Studies*
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
May not be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Description: This course examines important Mexican short story writers from modernism, in the late nineteenth century, to the present. The works of Juan Rulfo, Juan Jose Arreola, Carols Fuentes, Elena Garro, Juan Garcia Ponce, Elena Poniatowska, Jose Emilio Pacheco will be explored in a comparative context with other great writers of the genre. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Third-year Spanish or permission of the instructor.