Course Description
Develop advanced cultural knowledge, language, and research skills by exploring exceptional lives of the Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World through stories of knights-errant, beggars, saints, soldiers, and rebellious women. Given in Spanish.
Athena Title
Literary Adventures from Spain
Prerequisite
SPAN 3030 or SPAN 3030E or SPAN 3030H
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
To familiarize upper-division undergraduate students with the major texts and literary movements in Spain from the Middle Ages through 1700. Emphasis will be placed on reading on variety of texts and situating those texts within their cultural, historical and linguistic context. Reading assignments will be complemented by written and oral assignments, as well as exams. Students will be expected to develop their reading skills as well as the analytical and research techniques necessary to understand, discuss and develop coherent arguments about literary texts.
Topical Outline
Poetry, drama and prose of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque; epic and chronicle; medieval humor; the culture of the Court; aspects of "otherness" in medieval and renaissance Spain; theories of kinship; theories of estates and classes; the evolution of the picaresque narrative; aspects of the comedia; the female voice; the notion of "Conquest" and "Reconquest" in medieval and renaissance Spain.
Syllabus