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SPAN236

Cervantes SPAN236 SP

Crosslistings: FIST236

Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Sat Mar 8 05:00:06 EST 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       30      17         13

Cervantes' work continually raises the problems of separating fantasy from reality, fiction from fact, art from life, interpretation from perception, reality from the language used to describe it. Can they in fact be separated? And what does Don Quijote signify in the cultural history of Spain? We read and discuss major works by Cervantes with these and similar questions in mind, but without losing sight of the great master of comedy.

MAJOR READINGS

DON QUIXOTE, complete; selected EXPEMPLARY
NOVELS; one or two farces for the stage. Supplementary
readings in cultural studies, criticism, sociology,
philosophy are supplied.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Three short papers, final paper or project on topic of student's choice. Oral presentations are revised and written up as short papers.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This course is conducted in English. Spanish majors and other students who wish to have credit for SPAN236 rather than FIST236 MUST read and do written work in Spanish, and meet for additional colloquia. The latter students should have taken SPAN224. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA RLIT

Prerequisites: SPAN224

Section 01: Dunn, P; Times: .T.T... 1:10PM;; Grading Mode: Mixed; Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 2, Fr: 2; Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

About the Photo:

An alleged portrait of Cervantes, attributed to Juan de Jauregui

Reference:

Byron, William. CERVANTES, A BIOGRAPHY. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978

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