May be repeated for credit if topic is different. Three topics are offered Fall 2017. Section A1: Ruins and Ruinologies. The Third World as Ruins. Departing from Cuban Writer Antonio Jose Ponte, this course studies the "debris of the present". The relationship between ruins and memory, catastrophe and hope, urban space and literature, cinema and ethnography in Latin America. Section B1: After Gongora. The major poems of Gongora and their afterlife in modern poetry, through commentary, translation, and other kinds of recreation. Section C1: Literary Theory from Structuralism to Post-colonialism. Survey of important theoretical works and trends from structuralism through post-colonial theory. Theoretical essays are read in tandem with literary works. Also offered as GRS LF 850 A1.