Apr
11
Reflection: Span365
Posted by: | April 11, 2010 | Comments Off on Reflection: Span365
It’s absolutely insane to think how fast this semester has gone. Where was this time-flying ability back in October?? Looking back through all my blogs, we certainly covered a lot of interesting material. I have never been much for literature, analysis…
Apr
11
Conclusiones de Span 365
Posted by: | April 11, 2010 | Comments Off on Conclusiones de Span 365
I have thoroughly enjoyed this class. I think that the structure of the class – the blogs, commentary, paragraph discussion, etc – created a community in class in which students were able to develop opinions about the readings both in and out of clas…
Apr
10
Span 365 The Course
Posted by: | April 10, 2010 | Comments Off on Span 365 The Course
The course centers around magical realism and for the most part I thought I knew what it was and that the 3 books we read where all examples of magical realism; to which I was mistaken which left me lost on the concept. All three books seemed to use th…
Apr
10
Magical Realism: an inside joke?
Posted by: | April 10, 2010 | Comments Off on Magical Realism: an inside joke?
Wow, it’s hard to believe how unbelievably fast this semester (or this year, or the past 4 years even) have gone by. Sitting here writing this last blog post, I’m trying to reflect through the whirlwind that has been the semester to try to come to ter…
Apr
10
Flipping the coin.
Posted by: | April 10, 2010 | Comments Off on Flipping the coin.
The most interesting part of this course for me has come at the end with the comparison of McOndo and Macondo. As a HUGE fan of magical realism, I was at first thrown off with the mission statement of McOndo’s editors…..Why would they want to critic…
Apr
8
Entre Los Tres Libros
Posted by: | April 8, 2010 | Comments Off on Entre Los Tres Libros
Yes yes, I know. This is incredibly late to be posting this topic. Genius that I am forgot to copy/paste this entry out of my notes when it was due – I was too happy about going to bed/sleeping to remember to completely fulfill the homework for the eve…
Apr
8
McOndo
Posted by: | April 8, 2010 | Comments Off on McOndo
I had an interest to learn a little more behind the McOndo movement and decided to read further into some articles and reviews. It was interesting to first learn how Fuguet had come about the idea just after being denied to publish one of his works in …
Apr
7
¿quién quiere un mcondo?
Posted by: | April 7, 2010 | Comments Off on ¿quién quiere un mcondo?
Estoy disfrutando mucho los cuentos de McOndo. A leer más, me parece que hay un gran tema del rechazo de lo imaginario…algo que va contra lo que aparece en los textos que hemos leído hasta ahora del realismo mágico. Los escritores del Boom creí…
Apr
7
McOndo
Posted by: | April 7, 2010 | Comments Off on McOndo
Los cuentos de McOndo me parecen, en general, bastante entretenidos. Todos son muy faciles de leer y todos son simples, en el sentido que no tratan de nada fuera e lo ordinario. Todo lo que pasa son cosas que nos pasan a nosotros mismos o lo mas prbable es que conocemos a alquien que ha […]
Apr
6
McOndo [1]
Posted by: | April 6, 2010 | Comments Off on McOndo [1]
Dejamos Macondo por McOndo. El Presentación del país McOndo me parece muy sincero con un humor que caracteriza más los periódicos de los universidades de las obras literarias, pero el lector puede relacionar con la lenguaje, y este parece accesible y sincero. Me parece un poco como un libro que he leído en Barcelona, que […]
