Arts, Sciences, and Engineering Modern Languages & Cultures - Spanish
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-169885 SPAN 202-1 The Forging of a Nation: From the Romantics to Democratic Spain Spring 2024 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
MW 1230 PM 145 PM Lattimore Room 413 01/17/2024 05/11/2024
Enrollment: Enrolled     
13
Capacity     
18
Instructors: Raul Rodriguez-Hernandez
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Restrictions: New Restriction
Description: This course engages with the works of writers in Spain from the early 19th century through the 21st. Symptomatic of transformations throughout Europe, Spanish writers engage with a cultural and historical modernity that fitfully replaces the traditional social order of the past. Their tools were the systems of knowing the world, including the rise of science, and of linguistic expression that would be forever changed by contradictions they saw around them. From the poetry and legends of the Romantic period (Larra, Bécquer, Espronceda) through the literature of the post-Franco era (Montero, Pedrero, Ruiz Zafón)) literature in Spain is a register of cultural turmoil as well as desperate hope and expectation. Through close readings of texts, we examine the characters of Pérez Galdós, Pardo Bazán, Unamuno, Ortega y Gasset, García Lorca, Benavente, Matute, Martín Gaite, Buero Vallejo, Bernardo Atxaga, and Mercé Rodoreda. Prerequisite: SPAN 200.
Offered: Fall Spring Summer