SPAN 304 - Introduction to Hispanic Literature
Course Description: Conducted in Spanish, the course introduces the principles of literary analysis, based on reading and discussion of Hispanic literary texts. Includes fiction, drama, essay, and poetry from Spain and Spanish America.
Reflective Narrative: Before I began this class, an MLO 3 class, I never really had an interest in analyzing literature. I enjoy reading for pleasure, but as soon as I was assigned to analyze the piece and think about it on a more critical level, it began to bore me. But this class was just the opposite - I genuinely enjoyed reading the assigned stories and poems, and I found that I was spending more time on these assignments than in previous semesters. I especially enjoyed the reading Luisa Valenzuela's De Noche Soy Tu Caballo and the effects of the Guerra Sucia (Dirty War) in Argentina and the feminist dynamic that appears in the story. In this class, we learned extensively about rhetorical figures and tropes used in poetry, both ancient and modern. We discussed different eras of literature, like Romanticism and the Latin American Post-Boom. I enjoyed this class because it gave me the opportunity to write my first full-length essay in Spanish. I wrote an in-depth analysis of the effect of sociopolitics on literature in the Post-Boom Era. In brief, this essay discusses the effects of the Guerra Sucia in Argentina and the Spanish Colonization of Puerto Rico and how these events influence the literary world. I have been able to use this information in later studies. I feel with all the research I conducted on the Guerra Sucia, I do have a general understanding of what happened, and I was able to write more confidently on the topic when it came to the end of the semester. Looking back, I feel this class is one of the classes that I learned the most in here at my time at CSUMB
Reflective Narrative: Before I began this class, an MLO 3 class, I never really had an interest in analyzing literature. I enjoy reading for pleasure, but as soon as I was assigned to analyze the piece and think about it on a more critical level, it began to bore me. But this class was just the opposite - I genuinely enjoyed reading the assigned stories and poems, and I found that I was spending more time on these assignments than in previous semesters. I especially enjoyed the reading Luisa Valenzuela's De Noche Soy Tu Caballo and the effects of the Guerra Sucia (Dirty War) in Argentina and the feminist dynamic that appears in the story. In this class, we learned extensively about rhetorical figures and tropes used in poetry, both ancient and modern. We discussed different eras of literature, like Romanticism and the Latin American Post-Boom. I enjoyed this class because it gave me the opportunity to write my first full-length essay in Spanish. I wrote an in-depth analysis of the effect of sociopolitics on literature in the Post-Boom Era. In brief, this essay discusses the effects of the Guerra Sucia in Argentina and the Spanish Colonization of Puerto Rico and how these events influence the literary world. I have been able to use this information in later studies. I feel with all the research I conducted on the Guerra Sucia, I do have a general understanding of what happened, and I was able to write more confidently on the topic when it came to the end of the semester. Looking back, I feel this class is one of the classes that I learned the most in here at my time at CSUMB