SPAN 590

Fall 2012 All Classes

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Topics in Hispanic Studies

Credit: 4 hours.

Topical studies of Hispanic literature or linguistics beyond the scope of regular offerings at the 400- or 500-level.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: Corresponding introductory course at the 400-level, or consent of instructor.

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SPAN 590 class schedule data for fall 2012
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	59505	Lecture-Discussion	ED	10:00AM -12:30PM	W	Foreign Languages Building	Delgado, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: Topic: "Theories and Practices of Cultural Studies"
	32884	Lecture-Discussion	G1	2:00PM -4:50PM	W	Foreign Languages Building	Beckman, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Section Title: Literature & the World System Section Info: Topic:Literature and the World System, Meets with CWL 571. Faced with the rise of globalization and the weakening of traditional categories of nation and region, scholars of comparative literature have struggled to find new methods of classifying and interpreting literary texts. This course will focus on world-systems analysis, a theory of history that studies the integration of different societies into global capitalism, as a possible model for comparative literary studies. Is ?the world? an appropriate scale of analysis for individual literary texts? What might we gain?or lose?by placing texts from radically different social contexts (say, France and Brazil, or Guyana and Egypt) within a single frame of analysis? What happens to traditional understandings of genre and period once we place them in the context of large, indeed global, analytical structures? Theorists and critics will include Immanuel Wallerstein (founder of world-systems analysis), Fernand Braudel, Franco Moretti, Georg Luk�cs, Fredric Jameson, and Pascale Casanova. Primary texts by Goethe, Balzac, Machado de Assis, Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez, and Abdelrahman Munif, among others. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.