Jail+Break

// "We have to cease to think if we refuse to do it in the prison-house of language; for we cannot reach further than the doubt which asks whether the limit we see is really a limit..." NIETZSCHE //

Monday, October 13 === Class:  Read and discuss Manual Bandeira's poems: "Poetics" (68-69), "Mozart in Heaven" (71), and "Interview" (74) === ===    Homework:   ===
 * Read Oswald de Andrade's [|"Anthropophagite Manifesto"] as well as the following poems from the Tapscott anthology: "Portuguese Mistake" (93), "Good Luck" (94) and "Election" (95). As you are reading, think back to the statements of "poetics" [[image:http://www.itaucultural.org.br/bcodeimagens/imagens_publico/006859002019.jpg width="230" height="278" align="left" caption="Portrait of Oswald de Andrade"]]that we read from Martí and Darío. What did the //modernistas// see as the role of the poet in society? What was their approach to poetry? How do Bandeira and Oswald de Andrade represent a shift? **


 Wednesday, October 15  Class: **<span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Discuss Oswald de Andrade and the shift out of //el modernismo.// ** <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block"><span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(126, 149, 106)">Homework: <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block">  **<span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Read the following poems by César Vallejo: "The Black Messenger" (96), "To My Brother Miguel" (98), "Black Stone Lying on a White **

[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Cesar_vallejo_1929_RestauradabyJohnManuel.jpg align="right" caption="César Vallejo"]]
<span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block">Thursday, October 16 <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block"><span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(126, 149, 106)">Class: **<span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Discuss César Vallejo ** <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block"><span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(126, 149, 106)">Homework:  **<span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Read Mario de Andrade´s "Sunday" (113-114) and "Nocturne" (114-115). Also, read Carlos Drummond de Andrade´s "In the middle of the road" (166-167), "Don´t Kill Yourself" (167), "Residue" (170-171). OPTIONAL: "Portrait of a family" (171-173), "Diminutive" (173). ** <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block">Friday, October 17 <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block"><span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(126, 149, 106)">Class:  **<span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Discuss Mario de Andrade and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.
 * <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Stone" (100-101), "A man walks by with a loaf of bread on his shoulder" (103-104), "Spain, Take this cup from me" (105-106). OPTIONAL: "I´m thinking of your sex" (99), "I´m going to talk about hope" (100), "Today I like life much less" (101-102) **

** <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block"><span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(126, 149, 106)">Homework:  **<span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Read Vicente Huidobro´s "Ars Poética (117-118)" and "Poetry is a heavenly crime" (123). Also, please read pages 201-209 of the section on Pablo Neruda. OPTIONAL: "Ode to Laziness" (219-220) ** <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block"><span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(126, 149, 106)"> <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block"> <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block"> Monday, October 20 <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block"><span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(126, 149, 106)">Class: **<span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Although it is an egregious crime...we are going to cover Huidobro and Neruda in one class. We will return to Pablo Neruda later in the course. //No se preocupen.// ** <span style="font-size: 200%; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 59, 29); text-align: left; display: block"><span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(126, 149, 106)"> Homework: **<span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">Please read Fernando Ortiz´s essay "Tobacco and Sugar". This text is on the conference. **