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ROMANCE LANGUAGES - UGA

 
  
 
 
 
 


 

SPAN 8100 - Spring 2009 OVERVIEW

This graduate course will reflect on and provide examples of the intersections between experimental poetics and the advent of technological advances, whose connections form the backdrop for the current cybercultural/literary condition structuring 20th-and 21st-Century Latin American literatures and cultures.  By engaging in the study of canonical and non-canonical cases from literary and artistic realms, we will examine the so-called cultural shift from humanism to posthumanism, which in turn will lead us to revisit the move from modernity to postmodernity (and hypermodernity). Readings will include poetry of several varieties (encompassing more "traditional" verse, visual and concrete poetry, algorithmic and interactive works, and hyper/cybertext), novels, short stories, films, blogs, e-bulletin boards, and essays, as well as secondary readings in literary and cultural criticism and digital media studies. Enjoy it!

 

 

 

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