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Class number:
2955
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Title: The Theater of García Lorca |
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Department: Language and Culture Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 11 |
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Available seats: 8 |
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Start date: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 |
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End date: Friday, May 8, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM, MECC - 246 |
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Instructor(s): Gelardo-Rodriguez, Teresa |
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Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: HISP 260 or higher, 270 recommended |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements |
Course Description:
This course introduces students to the tragic imagination in 20th-century Hispanic literature through the theater of Federico García Lorca. The course will focus on close readings of Lorca’s major plays—such as Blood Wedding, Yerma, and The House of Bernarda Alba—to explore how his dramatic works engage with themes of tyranny, oppression, freedom, love, and identity.A central concern of the course will be understanding the concept of tragedy: how it functions as a literary form, how Lorca reimagines it within a modern Spanish context, and how it becomes a vehicle for political and emotional expression. Students will learn to analyze dramatic structure, character, imagery, and symbolism while situating Lorca’s theater within broader cultural and historical frameworks, including the lead-up to the Spanish Civil War.Throughout the semester, we will also consider Lorca’s influence on later Hispanic writers and artists and how tragedy continues to shape questions of justice, freedom, and human dignity in literature. |