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The idea behind this four-day course offered by writer Eduardo Lago is to gauge the state of the question at the heart of North American literature, the most vital, richest, and most diversified writing of our time, making several stops at key moments in its historical tradition that help explain the strength this literature has at present.   We are living in an era of radical change concering reading.  What role is left for literary expression in the context of the times we are living?  What is, to that effect, the relationship between literature and society in one of the most highly criticized and admired cultural realities in this day and age?  Considering the case of the state of literary creation in United States, we will tackle the following questions: What is the future of the narrative form in the face of new media?  What modes of analysis do today's texts require?  What is literature's position, considering the countless perspectives from which books can be dealt with?  What elements make reading another media form and manipulate a reader's criteria?  How many ways are there to read: as a critic, as a student, as a teacher, as an ordinary citizen?
This course on the North American literature of our time and its historical keys is  OPEN.  The idea of levels is surpassed, deliberately seeking out interaction between specialists, non-experts, and readers foreign to professional fields related to institutionalized literature, from the publishing world to journalistm, to academic studies.
The four sessions will deal with topics and cultural movements that sum up the current experience of this literature, accounting for its historical background.  Each session will consist of two parts separated by a brief nterlude: a) exposition of the topic being studied, and b) critical analysis of a representative work.
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