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3.00 Credits
A chronological study of selected masterpieces of the Peninsula from their genesis in the Middle Ages to the present with an emphasis on the historical, political, and sociological factors that have shaped Spanish culture and society. An appreciation of the essential features of different literary periods (e.g., Renaissance, Baroque, Romanticism) and of correspondences to other artistic media. Prerequisites: Two courses from level III or the equivalent. (Liébana, offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
From the Spanish American War (1898) to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) there was a period of extraordinary literary and artistic production, often recognized as a second Golden Age in Spanish cultural history. Literature and philosophy, art and cinema, gave Spain some of its most prominent international figures, such as Unamuno, Baroja, GarcÃa Lorca, Bu uel and DalÃ. This course will examine the socio historical conditions that gave birth to the Generations of 1898 and 1927 with particular emphasis on the experimental literary and artistic movements of the time, such as symbolism, impressionism and surrealism. Prerequisite: two courses from level III, or the equivalent (Liéban a, offered alternate years
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the cultural history of Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico through the analysis of some of the main features of the literature and music of the region. Students investigate how these two expressive modalities delve into issues of gender roles, racial relations, identity (insularity, hybridity), economic dependence, religious syncretism, and a characteristic sense of humor. The study shows literature has self-consciously drawn on the oral traditions while music spontaneously draws on the written word, imitating and complementing life and each other. Prerequisite: two courses from level III, or the equivalent. (Paiewonsky-Conde, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
A study of the novel after the Spanish Civil War, the course focuses on some of the major novelists writing during the Franco regime (1939-1975), and the new generation of authors of the post-Franco period. Such topics as the trauma of the Civil War, censorship and creative freedom, the New Wave novelists, and female voices in Spanish fiction are addressed. Movies based on contemporary Spanish novels are part of the course. Prerequisites: Two courses from level III, or the equivalent. (Liébana, offered occasionally)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the Spanish contribution to the historical development of the notion of melancholia within Western culture and thought. Starting with a question that is more than two thousand years old, "Why are all great people melancholy ", this course investigates the interrelation between sadness, anxiety and creativity on the literary and philosophical level, while taking into account the heterogeneous historical, cultural and political background of this nexus. A reading list combining historical, theoretical and critical texts will supply an introduction to the complex development of the notion of melancholia from a Spanish perspective. Prerequisite: two courses from level III, or the equivalent. (Mülle r, offered occasionally
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the complex social, literary and philosophical aspects that underlie the ideology of love developed in Spanish literature during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity. Through intensive textual readings students approach conventional as well as subversive models of love and lovers, along with issues in gender identity, female literacy, and politics of sexuality. The analysis of gender relationships uncovers the taboos and the repressed aspects of the Early Modern culture and the self. Prerequisite: two courses from level III, or the equivalent (Müller, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
This course encompasses one or more topics concerning female experience as represented in texts written by women in Latin America . Class themes and discussions center on issues such as women as writers; the female body and violence; women and power; women as agents of history; or female voice/female silence. Prerequisite: two courses from level III, or the equivalent. (Farnsworth, offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes major works of Spain's most influential literary and cultural period (1492-1700). It focuses on topics that have become foundational to modernity such as the relation of author and authority, self fashioning and orthodoxy, perspectivism and ethnocentrism, religious thought and secular power. This class will examine the literary texts in the larger context of Renaissance culture, and explore their interrelations with history, philosophy and art, and their preceding Italian and contemporary Elizabethan counterparts. Prerequisite: two courses from level III, or the equivalent (Müller , offered alternate years)
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on reading and discussion of major works by the generation of Latin-American writers know as the Latin American "boom" and important precursors. Consideration is given to the political factors that inform the ideological premises of these writers. Prerequisite: two courses from level III, or the equivalent. (Paiewonsky-Conde , offered every three years)
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3.00 Credits
Independent Study
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