Course Description
This course introduces the Hispanic tradition of horror and fantasy in literature and film and will help students to develop skills in reading and analyzing fiction. We will read writers from different periods and analyze a variety of horror texts, written and filmed, from Spain, Latin America, and the Caribbean. We will also discuss and analyze these texts from aesthetic perspectives: the uncanny, the supernatural, the divine, the sublime, abjection, and fantasy. This course also addresses the philosophical issues of out attraction to this genre and its sociological and spiritual implications.