Span 350 - Undergraduate Seminar in Spanish Literature and Culture

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Washington University in St Louis

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Taught in Spanish. Topics vary. Can be repeated for credit. This course can be counted as one of the three surveys required to obtain a Spanish major. Prerequisites: Span 307D; concurrent registration in Span 308D is recommended. Section 01. Spanish-American Short Novel. Study of the 20th-century short novel in Spanish America. Authors include Bombal, Bioy Casares, Hernández, Castellanos, Fuentes, García Márquez, Ferré, Valenzuela, del Río. Section 02. The Spanish Short Story During the Past 50 Years. An explosion of storytellers: the rise and fall and rebirth of a genre. This course reviews a half century of short fiction in Spain, emphasizing the works written since 1970. We focus on the most significant, representative movements in relation to their historical and social contexts. Writers studied include Camilo José Cela, Miguel Delibes, Ignacio Aldecoa, Ana María Matute, Carmen Martín Gaite, Juan Benet, José María Merino, Luis Mateo Díez, Esther Tusquets, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Soledad Puértolas, Javier Marías, Antonio Muñoz Molina, and Marina Mayoral. Paper, mid-term and final exams. Section 03. Early Modern Spanish Texts: Whose "Golden Age" Do They Represent? This course studies a series of works from 16th- and early 17th-century Spain canonized by later readers as classics of national Spanish literature, whose original audiences viewed them as comical, even subversive experiments that went beyond the limits of known literary forms to incorporate discourses of material experience, revealing the decadent underside of imperial Spain's so-called "Golden Age." Includes the Lazarillo de Tormes, Fuenteovejuna, selections from Don Quixote, and other readings. Satisfies the 300-level literature survey requirement for the Spanish major and minor..

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3.00

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www.wustl.edu

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(314) 935-5000

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North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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