CPLT 572T

Contemporary Latin American Novel

Spring 2002

Dr. Gass

Office:  UH440

Telephone:  773-2713

e-mail: jgass@fullerton.edu

Fax: (714) 895-5751

Office Hours: W 11-12, Th 6-7, MVC: W 6-7, or by appointment

 

 

            Syllabus

 

Required Texts:  (All books are available at the Little Professor Book Center on Placentia next to Kinko’s.) 

Allende, Isabel.  The House of the Spirits    

Carpentier, Alejo. The Lost Steps 

Castellanos, Rosario. The Nine Guardians 

Cortázar, Julio.  Hopscotch 

Ferré, Rosario. The House on the Lagoon 

Fuentes, Carlos. The Death of Artemio Cruz 

García, Cristina.  The Agüero Sisters 

Márquez, Gabriel García.  One Hundred Years of Solitude  

Martínez, Tomás Eloy. Santa Evita 

Puig, Manuel. Kiss of the Spider Woman   

Rulfo, Juan. Pedro Páramo 

Vargas Llosa, Mario.  The Green House 

Valenzuela, Luisa. The Lizard’s Tail 

 

Course Requirements:

 

1.  Read and discuss the novels.

2.  Write a 15-20 page seminar paper which analyzes an aspect of one of the novels required for the seminar.  Your paper should cover materials other than those covered in class.

3.  Compile and present a 15-20 item annotated bibliography on the novel your seminar paper analyzes.

4.Present three brief analyses of three of the novels in which you compare, contrast, and critique three different critical analyses taken from journals or books on the works of the author. These presentations  must be presented on the day we are scheduled to discuss the novel in question. There will be no make-up for missed dates. You will turn in the hard copy of your presentation, as well.

5.  Make a 10-minute presentation, at the end of the semester, on your seminar paper project.  This presentation should cover in more depth some aspect of the novel that you did not necessarily cover in your paper (which you will have provided in advance to your seminar colleagues and to me) but which you nevertheless found intriguing; in addition, you should be fielding questions from your seminar colleagues.

 

Grading Policy:

 

Seminar Paper:              50%

Annotated Bib.:             20%

Presentations:                15% 

Paper Report:                15%

                                                                        100%

 

Course Schedule:

 

Week #1:            Introduction: ‘Boom’ and Post-Boom 

Week #2:         Carpentier, The Lost Steps 

Week #3:            Rulfo, Pedro Páramo 

Week #4:            Cortázar, Hopscotch 

Week #5:            Vargas Llosa, The Green House 

Week #6:         Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz 

Week #7:         Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude 

Week #8:         One Hundred Years of Solitude 

Week #9:         Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman 

Week #10:       Castellanos, The Nine Guardians  

Week #11:       Allende, The House of the Spirits