PORTLIT 157: Introduction to Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Literatures (SPANLIT 157)
Topics may include: lyric and epic poetry; Jewish and Muslim literatures; the development of Castilian, Catalan, and Portuguese prose; the Valencian golden age; texts of the Renaissance and Baroque; the literature of imperial expansion into Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Barletta, V. (PI)
PORTLIT 357: The Novel and Latin American Sociopolitical History (SPANLIT 357)
The modern European conception of literature as in Schlegel's
Fragments and the break with the belles lettres tradition. Topics include: the 19th-century gap between Europe and Latin American society; absence of middle classes and rise of the intellectual in spheres of power; colonial heritage; role of positivism (Comte) and evolutionism, including Sarmiento's
Facundo and Euclides da Cunha's
Os Sertões; documentalism and national identity; slow growth of intellectual presence. Notable exception: Machado de Assis' novels
D. Casmurro and
Esaú e Jacó.
Last offered: Winter 2008
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