Spanish 595 – Literary Problems: Nineteenth Century

This course explores Spanish theater in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, the era in which the foundation of a modern national theater in Spain was laid. Spain’s experience of industrial, social, and cultural modernity has long been described as a long and uneven one, and the theater of this period reflects this reality. Through the study of representative Neoclassical, Romantic, Melodramatic, Realist, Modernist, and Generation of ’27 works, we will mine the figure of the “outsider” in modern Spanish theater in order to uncover the challenges the nation faced in assimilating new racial and
gender norms, as well as literary and technological innovations. It will be taught in English.
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