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3.00 Credits
Exploring new ways of thinking; scientific observation and traveling; historiography; and the organization of knowledge. Analysis and discussion of a variety of 18th-century Latin-American narratives such as conventual writing by women, memoirs, travel, scientific writing, and newspaper articles, to understand how that century's attempts to compile, question, seek, build and reform came about. The narratives are regarded in their historical context and in a dialogue with some of the most recent literary studies about 18th-century Latin America. Prerequisites: Span 307D and Span 308D and at least two 300-level literature courses taught in Spanish. One-hour preceptorial for undergraduates.
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This course analyzes different representations of violence in Latin-American literature. Based on a critical analysis of 19th- and early 20th-century texts, we study how the recognition and legitimization of violence occurs in the context of hierarchical relationships in the society. Also we study how the literary images of bandits, pirates, thieves, and assassins become the counter-discourse of the views of progress sustained by the hegemonic powers. The role of power and ideology is discussed in texts that define different levels of violence as a cultural manifestation.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the evolution of Spanish and its dialects from Latin to contemporary usage. Knowledge of Latin helpful but not required. Prerequisites: Span 307D, 308D.
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3.00 Credits
Same as French 456
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3.00 Credits
Same as IAS 457
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3.00 Credits
This course is devoted to the study of exemplarity, historical discourse and chivalric fiction, in medieval Iberia. It begins with an introductory selection of 13th-century texts, that prepares the students to better understand the development of Castillian identity, as shown in a selection of historical chronicles, and in some of the most canonical texts of the 15th century, such as El Libro del Conde Lucanor, El Libro de Buen Amor, and El Libro del Caballero Zifar.
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This course focuses on the narrative fiction of Spanish women of the post-Franco era: those who began to publish shortly after Franco's death and continue to write into the new century (Esther Tusquets, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Rosa Montero, Carmen Riera, and Adelaida García Morales), as well as the more recent crop of writers who emerged on the literary scene in the past decade (Nuria Amat, Lucía Etxebarria, and Espido Freire). We consider the works of these women within their cultural, historical, and political contexts, addressing issues such as the representation of gender and sexuality; the cultural impact of feminism, nationalism, and globalization; and the influence of the publishing industry and the market on literary production. Whenever available, film adaptations of these literary works are used in conjunction with the readings. Prerequisites: Span 307D and Span 308D and at least two 300-level courses taught in Spanish. One hour preceptorial for undergraduates only; in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
Study of early modern Spain's highly influential and innovative comedias, from Lope de Vega's creation of new popular forms for public corrales to the spectacles of court theater for elite audiences in the generation that followed. Includes study of selected plays, as both texts and performances. Prerequisites: Span 307D and Span 308D and at least two 300-level courses taught in Spanish. One-hour preceptorial for undergraduates; in Spanish.
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Study of the famous work that launched the novel, giving voice to surprisingly different forms of experience and identity as it narrates the life of a crazed reader who attempts to rewrite his own history by becoming a knight errant. Includes Parts 1 and 2 of Cervantes's Don Quixote, a range of critical readings, and the use of visual media that reflect how this work has in subsequent centuries entered popular culture. Prerequisites: Span 307D and Span 308D and at least two 300-level literature courses taught in Spanish. One-hour preceptorial for undergraduates; in Spanish.
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3.00 Credits
A detailed study of the novela, or novella, genre in 17th-century Spain, including selected novelas ejemplares by Cervantes and selected novelas amorosas and desenganos amorosos by María de Zayas. The course considers the problem of exemplarity, the representation of transgression or deviancy, literary tradition, and sociohistorical context in these works. Prerequisites: Span 307D and Span 308D and at least two 300-level literature courses taught in Spanish. One-hour preceptorial for undergraduates; in Spanish.
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