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LITERATURE CS 113, Section 1 EC # 27789
LANGUAGE GAMES IN LATIN AMERICA

In this course we will read some Latin American modern fiction novels, novellas, poems - that play with words and subvert the formal rules of conventional language and orthographic writing. We will try to explore how they question some of the dominant discourses about "language" in the Latin American intellectual tradition, such as the traditions of philology and linguistics.

Beside the texts of literature (Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Julio Cortazar, Vicente Huidobro), we will read some different reflection about language, game and jokes (Wittgenstein, Freud, Heidegger) and some extracts of the important grammarians and philologists of the Spanish language




Required Texts:

Cortazar, Julio Hopscotch Pantheon
Infante, Guillermo C. Three Trapped Tigers Dalkey Archive Press
Huidobro, Vicente Altazor Wesleyan University Press



Instructor(s): Juan Cristobal Castro
Time(s): Monday and Wednesday, 2:00-3:30 pm
Place(s): Old Little Theatre, Rm. 160B


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