The basic formula operates analogously to this example: if the whole class watches The Matrix and reads
Orwell’s 1984, what contextualized but original interpretation can you offer of
a work like Demolition Man? It’s also a twentieth-century fictional work about a futuristic dystopia, but
there are other things going on there as well. Interpretive possibilities are manifold.
Focusing on the problems or questions evinced by the following works:
- “Un nuevo poeta pastor,” by Ernesto Giménez Caballero.
- The Poems of the these poets: Miguel Hernández, Pablo Neruda, Lucía Sánchez Saornil and César
Vallejo, corresponding to your presentation. you must interpret the “Guerinca painting by Picasso” in the
context of the work(s) mentioned above. How can you bring the intellectual and aesthetic terminology
you’ve found to bear on this work? How does this work sustain or
challenge the categories you’ve established thus far?
You will present a bit of information to the class that might be helpful in thinking about the works
mentioned above.
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