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332. The Golden Age of Spain. (3h) Close analysis of literary texts, such as Lazarillo de Tormes,
and study of the history, art, politics, and economics of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
with emphasis on themes such as the writer and society, humanism, the picaresque, Catholic
mysticism, and power and politics. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
333. Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature and Culture. (3h) Study of the major
intellectual movements of the period: Enlightenment, Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism in
Spain through literary texts, essays, painting, and music. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
334. Spanish-American Theatre: From Page to Stage. (3h) Study of the transition of a dramatic
work from text to performance and the role of Spanish-American theatre as a vehicle for
cultural values and socio-political issues. Includes rehearsals for the public staging of selected
one-act plays. Proficiency in Spanish and willingness to act on stage are required. P—SPA 217
or 218 or 363 or POI.
341. Golden Age Drama and Society. (3h) Study of the theatre and social milieu of seventeenthcentury
Madrid, where the works of playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and
Calderón de la Barca were performed. Includes analysis of texts and of modern stagings of the
plays. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
343. Cervantes: The Birth of the Novel. (3h) Study of Don Quijote, the first modern novel, and
several exemplary novels, and contemporary theoretical approaches to them. Also considers
related art, music, and film. Includes discussion of themes such as the development of prose
fiction, the novel as self-conscious genre, women and society, religion and humanism, nationalism,
and imperialism. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
347. Contemporary Theatre in Spain and Spanish America. (3h) Study of contemporary Peninsular
and Spanish-American theatre within its political, social, cultural, and aesthetic context.
P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
348. Transatlantic Renaissance. (3h) Study of the Spanish Golden Age period by reading and analyzing
relevant peninsular and colonial texts within the broader political, social, and cultural
contexts of the Spanish presence in the New World. Exposure to recent critical perspectives in
early modern cultural studies. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
349. Contemporary Women Novelists and their Female Characters. (3h) Study of representative
novels by women writers from Spain and Latin America, with emphasis on the representation
of the female protagonist within her cultural context. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
350. Introduction to Spanish Film Studies. (3h) Exploration of the cinematic production of Spain
from its origin to current day, covering major film trends from Second Republic, Civil War,
Dictatorship, and Democratic Spain. Focus is on films as narratives and as visual media, on
Spanish culture and identity pictured through films, and on representative film-makers such as
Buñuel, Saura, Almodóvar and Amenábar. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
351. Transgressing Borders: Identity in Latin American and U.S. Latino Cultures. (3h) A socio-
historical study of theories on culture, sexual politics, and race in relation to literary texts, lyrics
of popular music, and art of Latin America and the diaspora. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI. (CD)
352. Love, Death, and Poetry. (3h) Study of the representation of universal themes in Spanish
poetry from different historical periods. P—SPA 217 or 218 or POI.
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