SPAN 5160 is also offered in Spring 2023
SPAN 5160 is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2017 | SPAN 5160 Section 001: Medieval Iberian Literatures and Cultures (34855)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Civil Engineering Building 213
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- The major literary genres developed in Spain from the Reconquest to 1502, with reference to the crucial transformations of the Middle Ages, including primitive lyric, epic, clerical narrative, storytelling, debates, collections, chronicles, "exempla," and the Celestina (1499-1502).
- Class Description:
- The major literary genres developed in Spain from the Reconquest to 1502, with reference to the crucial transformations of the Middle Ages, including primitive lyric, epic, clerical narrative, storytelling, debates, collections, chronicles, "exempla," and the Celestina (1499-1502). We will read some of the major works in Castilian from the medieval period, pausing along the way to consider some less well known texts. Along with the historical and social contexts of these works (especially those involving the fraught interactions between Christians, Muslims, Jews and converts), the course will also emphasize a variety of critical approaches that help discover meanings that go beyond historical periodization. One such interpretive model, for example, will take into account economic transactions and obligations in order to explore the ethics of interpersonal, intercultural and interfaith relations. Readings will include: Poema de Mio Cid. Ed. Colin Smith. Madrid: Catedra, 1998. .Don Juan Manuel. El Conde Lucanor. Ed. Alfonso I. Sotelo. Madrid: Catedra, 1989. Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita, Libro de buen amor. Ed. de Alberto Blecua. Catedra, Madrid, 1992 Fernando de Rojas, La Celestina. Ed. Dorothy S. Severin. Catedra, Madrid, 1994. El romancero. Ed. Paloma Diaz Mas. Critica: Barcelona, 2006. Diego de San Pedro, Obras completas, II: Carcel de Amor. Ed. Keith Whinnom. Castalia, Madrid, 1971. Additional selections available on reserve or coursepack.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34855/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 October 2014
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2017 Spanish Classes Taught by Michelle Hamilton