Entre los estudios culturales y el canon literario. Estudio contrastivo de la enseñanza de la poesía en español en los Master in Arts de las universidades de Estados Unidos

Abstract

The Spanish Literature as a didactic tool to bring students closer to the language and culture has experienced a notable decline in the United States since the late 1970s of the last century with the rise of the introduction and implementation of the so-called “cultural studies” which have involved a diversification in approaches to “the Spanish” prioritising the visual aspects and world (cinema, visual arts, comic, series, etc.) against the tradition of the literary canonical. Currently there are very few University departments of Spanish and Latin American Studies which offer specific subjects focused on poetry as a main resource for the teaching/learning processes. In this article, starting from the lists of compulsory readings chosen by specialists and addressed to the students of the Master of Arts from different public universities placed around the four regions of the USA, an approximation is made to understand the reality of the use of poetic texts in Spanish that are part of the canon in North American university classrooms.