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Harry L. Rosser
associate professor of hispanic studies
Education and Academic Degrees:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ph.D.
Cornell University, M.A.
College of Wooster, B.A.
Fields of Research:
Professor Rosser's areas are Latin American Literature, Linguistics, and Latin American Studies. His present research interests include the increasing globalization of Magical Realism and the ongoing problem of (mis)labeling García Márquez raises a number of issues involving extensive commercialization of an authentic discourse emanating from Latin America. Imitation and blending of this discourse's original characteristics in works by disparate writers from other countries is leading to a generic kind of writing that literary marketers label in all too facile fashion as "Magical Realism", losing sight of the authentic source of this discourse and its special, culturally rooted elements.
Also of interest to Prof. Rosser are the aesthetic and political correspondences between the works Gabriel García Márquez and of the painter Fernando Botero. Specific esthetic and historical sources, including the pictorial nature of Latin American "magical realism" and elements associated with post-modernism, are keys to understanding the texts and textures of these two Colombians.
Book:
Conflict and Transition in Rural Mexico: The Fiction of Social Realism. Waltham, Ma.: Brandeis University / Crossroads Press, 1980, 173 pp.
Articles:
“The Issues of Content: Literature and Culture in the Continuum,” book chapter, (with E.Alexander) in A Challenge to Change: The Language Learning Continuum, (New York: The College Board, 1999.
La visión fatalista de Juan Rulfo,” in Pupo-Walker, Enrique, ed., El cuento hispanoamericano, Madrid: Editorial Castalia, 1995.
“El video y la enseñanza actual de una lengua extranjera,” (with Enric Bou, ed.), Cuadernos Cervantes de la Lengua Española, No.3, julio, l995.
"Languages With a Purpose: Proficiency Revisited", in Pujadas, L., ed., Towards the Global Economy: Challenges and Options for Foreign Language Educators in the Hemisphere, Port-of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: National Institute of Higher Education, Third Caribbean Language Conference, 1995.
"Nadie nos entenderá nunca: Los cuentos de Gabriel García Márquez," Confluencia: Revista Hispánica de Literatura y Cultura, 8, 2, 1993.
"Juan José Arreola: Mexico's Master of the Fantastic," in Magill, Frank N., ed.,
Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Pasadena, Ca: Salem Press, 1993.
"Form and Content in Elena Garro's Los recuerdos del porvenir," reprinted in Bloom, Harold, ed., Modern Latin Amerian Fiction, New York: Chelsea House (Criticism Series), 1990.
"El cuento olvidado de Juan Rulfo," Revista Iberoamericana, 56, 150, 1990.
"Being and Time in La vida a plazos de don Jacobo Lerner" (Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana, 17, 1, 1988.
"The Disintegration and Reconstruction of Artemio Cruz," in Cloonan, W. and J. James, Apocalyptic Visions Past and Present, Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1988.
"Adam's Zeal and the World of Spanish American Letters," Latin American Research Review, 22, 1, 1987.
"Vargas Llosa y La señorita de Tacna: Historia de una historia," Hispania, 69, 3, 1986.
"Oral Proficiency Assessment: Implications and Applications, Association of Departments of Foreign Languages Bulletin, 18,1,1986.
"Reflections in an Equine Eye: Arévalo Martínez' 'Psycho-zoology," Latin American Literary Review, 14, 28, 1986.
"Quiroga's and Cortázar's Dream Crossings," Revista / Review Interamericana, 13, 1-4 , 1983.
"The Voice of the Salamander: Cortázar's 'Axolotl' and the Transformation of the Self," Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 30,4, 1983.
"Enrique González Martínez: 'El matacisnes' y su concepción estética," Cuadernos Americanos, 41, 4, 1982
"Oposiciones estructurales en 'El hombre,' de Juan Rulfo," Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 16, 3, 1982.
"Retrato del narrador como caballo: auto-análisis psico-zoológico de Arévalo Martínez," Journal of Spanish Studies: Twentieth Century, 8, 1-2, 1980.
"Testing Oral Communicative Skills," Foreign Language Annals, 12, 4, 1979.
"Form and Content in Elena Garro's Los recuerdos del porvenir," Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 2, 3, 1978.
"Mexican Social Realism in Mojarro's Bramadero," Hispanófila, 21, 61, 1977.
"Las silvas americanas de Andrés Bello," Romance Notes, 4, 1, 1973.
Video Programs:
Mosaico Cultural: Images from Spanish-Speaking Cultures. Boston: Heinle & Heinle Publishers and Castine Communications, 1993. Author, Chief Designer and Narrator of a series of 20 ten-minute video programs.
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish. Boston: WGBH Public Broadcasting System Educational Foundation, Annenberg Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and McGraw Hill, Inc, 1992. Narrator, Design Team Member, and Advisory Board Member for 52 half-hour programs of Spanish Telecourse 1988-1992 (First national telecast, Sept., 1992).
Other texts:
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Tú dirás: Introducción a la lengua y cultura hispánicas, with A. Martínez, J. Gutiérrez, 4th edition, Boston, MA., Thomson/Heinle Publishers, 2007. |
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Tú dirás: Introducción a la lengua y cultura hispánicas, with J. Gutiérrez and A. Martínez, 3rd ed., Boston: Heinle Publishers, (2003). |
Ya verás: Primer nivel, 2nd edition, (with J. Gutiérrez). Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 1997, 3rd edition, 1999.
Ya verás: Segundo nivel , 1st edition (with J. Gutiérrez). Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 1992. 2nd edition, 1997, 3rd edition, 1999.
Ya verás:Tercer nivel, 1st edition (with J. Gutiérrez). Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 1993. 2nd edition, 1997, 3rd edition, 1999.
Video Guide to Accompany Mosaico Cultural, (with J. Renjilian-Burgy), Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 1994.
Course Calendar:
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