SPANISH 393 - Special Topics in Peninsular Literature and Culture

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Reed College

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The Spanish Picaresque Novel of the 16th and 17th Centuries: Origins, Evolution, and Consolidation of a Critical Literary Tool Full course for one semester. This course focuses on the autobiographical narrations of the pícaro, who ironically unveils the lies and hypocrisies of a corrupt society in sixteenth and seventeenth century Spain. We will trace the literary precedents of the picaresque novel in the Spanish Middle Ages and Renaissance in order to identify the defining characteristics of this popular sub-genre of prose. Then we will examine how this satirical discourse is constructed to offer the reader a rich mine of observations concerning every social milieu. Readings include the anonymous Vida del Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus Fortunas y Adversidades, Francisco de Quevedo's Vida del Buscón llamado don Pablos, Alonso Jerónimo de Salas Barbadillo's La hija de la Celestina, Miguel de Cervantes's Rinconete y Cortadillo and La Gitanilla, Juan de Luna's Segunda parte del Lazarillo de Tormes, and Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses's La Ni a de los Embustes, Teresa de Manzanares. Primary readings in Spanish will be complemented by theoretical readings, mostly in English, by authors-Marcel Mauss, Judith Butler, Sigmund Freud, Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, among others. Prerequisite: Spanish 321 or equivalent or consent of the instructor. ConSpanish Cinema Full course for one semester. In this course, we will consider a variety of critical and theoretical approaches to the growing canon of Spanish cinema. From Bu uel's first experiments to the most recent releases, the films studied will be examined as both aesthetic texts and historical documents-documents that not only have a particular history, but serve to enact national histories as well. Directors whose films we will be discussing include álex de la Iglesia, Almodóvar, Amenábar, Bardém, Berlanga, Bigas Luna, Bollaín, Borau, Bu uel, érice, León de Aranoa, Ma as, Martín Patino, Ménem, Miró, Nieves-Conde, Sáenz de Heredia, Saura, David Trueba, and Fernando Trueba, among others. Screenings held outside of class hours. Prerequisite: Spanish 321 or equivalent with consent of the instructor.

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3.00

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www.reed.edu

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(503) 771-1112

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Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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