Fall 2018  |  SPAN 3612 Section 001: Don Quijote and the Novel (34102)

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:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 317
Enrollment Status:
Closed (20 of 20 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
How Cervantes' text enters in dialogue with prevalent novelistic and social discourses of Spain's Renaissance and Baroque periods (sixteenth/seventeenth century). How novel has managed to interest succeeding generations of readers. Taught in English.
Class Notes:
This class is taught in English.
Class Description:
Cervantes's Don Quijote (1605; 1615) will be analyzed and discussed in light of literary, historical, philosophical, and social-cultural issues. Specific areas of discussion include Don Quijote and the poetics of the novel; its transgression of the limits of traditional prose-fiction genres (chivalric, pastoral, picaresque, etc.); its dialogue with the conservative culture of Counterreformation Spain; and preset-day debates between critics who adhere to traditional humanist and/or historicist readings and those whose work is informed by avant-garde, post-structuralist theory. Our general approach should also facilitate a discussion of the function of other types of discourses within the novel's frame. For example, one might argue that the purging of Don Quijote's library (I, 6) recalls the ritual discourse of the Inquisition; that Sancho's use of proverbs captures the weight of oral culture at a time when the majority of the population could neither read nor write; that the reactions of various characters to the oral reading of romances of chivalry allow us to speculate on matters of authority and authorial intentions as each listener brings to the reception his /her own preoccupations and tastes We shall also examine the strategy behind the novel's inclusion of elements of both official and unofficial culture, and consider how Don Quijote manages to engage in popular practices.
Grading:
30% Midterm Exam
40% Final Exam
10% Reports/Papers
10% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essays (analysis/discussion of key issues introduced in the course); Note: final exam is a take-home exam consisting of three questions to be distributed three weeks prior to the end of the semester .
Class Format:
60% Lecture
30% Discussion
10% Other Style
(Oral presentation? personal reflection on DON QUIJOTE)
Workload:
70-90 Pages Reading Per Week
7-8 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
1 Paper(s)
Other Workload: All lectures and discussions are conducted in English, and all written essays, papers and examinations will be submitted in English unless the course is taken for major credit. In the latter case exams must be written in Spanish.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34102/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 May 2007

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