SPAN 242 - Fantasizing the Mediterranean: Cervantes' Short Fiction

Institution:

Wesleyan University

Subject:

Spanish

Description:

Our subject is the rich interplay between art, cartography, and literature that takes place in Cervantes' NOVELAS EJEMPLARES. This course invites students to navigate into the blue-green waters of the Mediterranean Sea during the Early Modern period via Cervantes' short fictional representations of traveling. Our travels will introduce us to lovers, pirates, soldiers, witches, gypsies, and dogs that talk. Our task will be to map their elliptical mobilization and cultural transformation as we travel from coastal Spain to Italy, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, and back again. Throughout the course, we will study maps and other visual representations of the Mediterranean Basin produced during the period. In tracing this relation between text and map, we will simultaneously chart a path into the changing terrains of "fiction" and "fantasy" during the Early Modern period.

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Seminar

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Institution Website:

www.wesleyan.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 685-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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