Span 3332 - Early Modern Spanish Texts: Whose Golden Age Do They Represent?

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Washington University in St Louis

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This course studies a series of work from 16th- and 17th-century Spain canonized by later readers as classics of national Spanish literature, that daringly experiment with the literary genres of their period to incorporate discourses from daily life, thereby revealing the decadence of imperial Spain and questioning the representation of this period as a "Golden Age." Includes the Lazarillo de Tormes, El Abencerraje, Fuenteovejuna, La Vida es Sueño, El Medico de Su Honra, and short narratives by Cervantes and María de Zayas. Prerequisites: Span 307D; concurrent enrollment in Span 308D is recommended. In Spanish.

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3.00

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Lecture

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www.wustl.edu

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(314) 935-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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