SP3158 Representations of the Urban: Twentieth-Century Buenos Aires

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

Curricular information may be subject to change

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Module coordinator

Dr E Kefala

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Module Staff

Dr E Kefala

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Module description

This interdisciplinary module explores urban space in Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s from the vantage point of the visual arts and literature. It provides a close examination of reactions to urban modernity that were shaped during a period of profound and long-lasting changes in the private and public spheres of the country. Focusing on urban space, specifically on Buenos Aires, as a cognitive map of modernity’s new realities, we will study works by the painter Alejandro Xul Solar (1887-1963), the novelist Roberto Arlt (1900-1942), and the photographer Horacio Coppola (1906-2012).

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS SP2002

Co-requisites

COMPULSORY MODULES FOR SINGLE AND MAJOR SPANISH PROGRAMMES.

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment