This panel presentation showcases exemplary student work from Spanish 4312 (Spring 2018). In this course, students analyzed and discussed the textual production in Spanish America from the beginning of the 20th century to our days. In this panel, students will approach the works of three of the most well-known and celebrated Latin American writers of this period—Julio Cortazar (Argentina), Horacio Quiroga(Uruguay) and Pablo Neruda (Chile)— in order to examine and consider the ways in which the sensible world is transformed and transfigured in their works as well as to identify the main textual resources they employ to achieve these effects. This presentation will be conducted entirely in Spanish.
Panel Participants and Paper Titles:
Lo mágico y lo mundano en el mundo literario de Julio Cortázar– Peter Sorensen
Tono y terror: El rol de las descripciones en dos obras de Poe y Quiroga. – Kolton Elmer
¿Habla del comunismo o de un plato?: Vanguardia, política y la poesía de lo cotidiano en la obra de Pablo Neruda- Brock Chad Hunter
