SPAN 333 - INTRO TO EARLY LATIN AMER LIT

Institution:

Old Dominion University

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Description:

Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisites: SPAN 311 and 312W or permission of the instructor. A panoramic study of Spanish American literature from its origins in pre-Columbian indigenous literature through the essayists of the Spanish conquest, the colonial writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Romantics and Realists to the Modernists. Students will read works of prose, poetry and theater of the most prominent writers of these centuries, along with background material in order to become familiar with literary periods and their historical contexts. Course objectives are for students to be able to do the following: read, analyze, compare, and critically discuss works of literature in Spanish; characterize various literary periods and movements of the 16th-18th centuries; and relate the texts read in class to their corresponding historical contexts.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.odu.edu

Phone Number:

(757) 683-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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