SPAN290

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SPAN290

Advanced Seminar in Literature: First Images of America in Colonial Literature SPAN290 FA

Not Currently Offered

The purpose of this seminar is to raise questions about critical concepts and discourses and about literary history. The organizing topic will be "First Images of America in Colonial Literature". Overview of European impressions and assumptions about America on encounter and subsequent contact. Topics discussed: problems of reading those texts, fiction vs. history, the noble savage, the exchange symbols, the notion of quest, utopianism vs. materialism, and the point of view of the conquered.

MAJOR READINGS

Works by: C. Columbus, Cortes, Diaz del
Castillo
F. Bartolome de las Casas, BREVISIMA RELACION DE LA
DESTRUCCION DE LAS INDIAS
F Bernardino de Sahagun, HISTORIA GENERAL DE LAS COSAS DE
NUEVA ESPANA, vol 1
A. Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, NAUFRAGIOS
L. Inigo Madrigal, ed., HISTORIA DE LA LITERATURA
HISPANOAMERICANA I. (EPOCA COLONIAL)

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

To be announced.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture Seminar Advanced Seminar in Literature: First Images of America in Colonial Literature ] The purpose of this seminar is to raise questions about critical concepts and discourses, and about literary history. For 1995 the organizing topic will be "First Images of America in Colonial Literature". Overview of European impressions and assumptions about "America" on encounter and subsequent contact. Topics discussed: problems of reading those texts, fiction vs. history, the noble savage, the exchange symbols, the notion of quest, utopianism vs. materialism, and the point of view of the conquered. MAJOR READINGS: Works by: C. Columbus, Cortes, Diaz del Castillo F. Bartolome de las Casas, BREVISIMA RELACION DE LA DESTRUCCION DE LAS INDIAS F Bernardino de Sahagun, HISTORIA GENERAL DE LAS COSAS DE NUEVA ESPANA, vol 1 A. Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, NAUFRAGIOS L. Inigo Madrigal, ed., HISTORIA DE LA LITERATURA HISPANOAMERICANA I. (EPOCA COLONIAL) EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS: To be announced. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS: 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 Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00

Prerequisites: None

Last Updated on MAR-22-1999

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