SEMINAR IN GARCÍA LORCA

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(Slashed with SPAN 58291 ) (Repeatable for credit) This seminar is an in-depth interdisciplinary study of Federico García Lorca's literary works and their film adaptations in their socio-historical, artistic and cultural contexts. Thematic approaches to Lorca’s works and person cover a variety of study topics such as political repression and social class, honor and desire, religion and taboo, homoerotism and gay identity, the subversion of women gender roles and sexuality in the patriarchal society, independently or along with others. Books, articles, documentaries and films situate Lorca’s works within the historical, socio-political and cultural contexts that shaped Spain prior to the Civil War. Critical works provide the necessary framework for the analysis of the primary sources.