FYSP 152
The
Making of a Martyr:
The
Life, Work, and Afterlives of
Federico
García Lorca
Federico
García Lorca is
politics in the turbulent years leading up to the
Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). We will especially focus on the Residencia de
Estudiantes, where Lorca lived together with his friends Luis Buñuel and
Salvador Dalí. Second, the course will analyze the national and international reception of Lorca’s work before, but
especially after, his assassination at the beginning of the Civil War in the
summer of 1936—an event that is still shrouded in mystery and highly
politicized, but which also served to propel the poet into martyrdom. What is
the connection between Lorca’s work, his tragic death, and his astonishing
posthumous fame?
MWF 1:30-2:20p, 302
Peters
Prof. Sebastiaan Faber
FYSP
152
The Making of a
Martyr: The Life, Work, and Afterlives of Federico García Lorca
SYLLABUS
instructor
Sebastiaan
Faber
404
Peters
tel. x58189
email: sebastiaan.faber@oberlin.edu
home
page: www.oberlin.edu/faculty/sfaber
office hours: MW
messages: The
fastest and most efficient way to contact me is via email. You can also leave a
message on my voicemail or with Blanche Villar at x55256, or stick a written
note in my box in 301 Peters.
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course
goals
As most first-year seminars, this
course serves as an introduction to a specific subject area as well as to
liberal arts learning in general.
Correspondingly, it aims to achieve a varied set of pedagogical goals. In
addition to studying the life and work of Federico García Lorca in its
historical context, the course will provide an opportunity to reflect in more
general terms on what it means to study literature and culture—particularly
foreign literatures and cultures in translation—at an elite liberal arts college.
The course will allow students to develop discipline-specific skills (e.g., analyzing
poems and plays); but it will also provide ample opportunity to acquire and put
into practice a series of more general intellectual skills and values. Of
particular importance among these are issues of information literacy, the
characteristics of the academic research process, and the conventions and ethics
of scholarly communication.
course
requirements and regulations
·
Active class participation and group work based on readings
and assignments.
·
Students are expected to have read the assigned texts by
the day indicated on the syllabus, hand in any assignments (type-written), and
be prepared to participate in class discussion.
·
In addition to a series of smaller 1- and 2-page
assignments, there will be one mid-term project (4 pages) and one final project
(8 pages). The final project will be presented to the group in the last week of
classes and handed in during Finals week.
·
Since a great part of the class time will be taken up by
presentations and group discussions, attendance to all class sessions is mandatory. Any absence over 3 will lower the final class
grade with 1 %.
·
Students are expected to be on time and to remain for
the entire class. Unexcused tardiness or early departure will be regarded as an
absence. The student who misses any part of the class is responsible for
acquiring the information missed.
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No late homework will be accepted.
·
Email and Blackboard will be the preferred media for
announcements, questions, and assignments; students are expected to check their
mail and Blackboard page every day.
evaluation
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Small assignments: 30%
·
Midterm project (4 pages): 15%
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Final project (8 pages) and presentation: 30%
honor code
This course and
all its assignments are covered by the