Tag Archives: poetry

Mapping Madrid through Art, Literature, and Creative Cartography

Posted on September 11, 2020 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

Since this fall semester is clearly “unprecedented”, unpredictable, and a whole host of adjectives that are pretty much ALL stress-inducing, I am taking the opportunity to experiment in my senior-seminar on 20th-century Spain. Last fall I taught a similar course … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, History, Literature, Pedagogy, Spain, Spanish Civil War | Tagged guernica, L2 Literature Pedagogy, madrid, maps, museo reina sofia, Pablo Picasso, pedagogy, poetry, spanish civil war, teaching | 3 Comments

Walking Around Scarecrows and Scarefishes: Surrealist Angst in Maruja Mallo and Pablo Neruda

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

One of the things I love about teaching and analyzing Spanish literature is that each time I (re)read a text for a new class or course, I end up interpreting it differently depending on what else I happen to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Literature, Spain, Spanish America, Surrealism, Women | Tagged 1930s, art, maruja mallo, Neruda, poetry, spanish art, surrealism | 1 Comment

Picasso’s “Guernica” and Aleixandre’s “Oda”: The Spanish Civil War in Art and Poetry

Posted on December 5, 2015 by Dr. Rebecca Bender

One of my favorite things to do when creating lesson plans and homework assignments is to find visuals that evoke the same themes or feelings as the literary text. When teaching poetry for example, I have found that images work … Continue reading →