POETIC GENERATION OF 1927

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A critical and stylistic study of the Poetic Generation of 1927, considering the influence of earlier Spanish writers, and the impact of European "isms". ESPA 5006. THE QUEERCARESQUE: QUEER INHERITOR OF THE PICARESQUE NOVEL. Three credit hours. One hour of lecture, one and a half hours of discussion and half hour of research per week. Discussion of The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes as the groundbreaking picaresque novel as well as excerpts of other classics of this genre. A transatlantic approach among queer literatures focused on the evolution or reappropriation of the genre, narratology, technologies linked to each book according to their historicity, and the marginalized sexualities that can be traced starting with the foundational Lazarillo. Analysis and critique of how language reveals the relationship between the authors and their countries in a particular moment in time.