Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
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Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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SPAN 4550 - [Cervantes: Don Quixote]


(HB) (LA-AS) Satisfies option 1.
Spring. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: SPAN 2170  and one of the following two courses: SPAN 2140  or SPAN 2150 , or permission of instructor. Next offered 2015-2016.

M. A. Garcés.

Don Quijote is not only the first modern work of literature, as Foucault noted, but also the first European novel, as the Czech novelist Kundera hailed it.  In fact, Foucault believed that Cervantes’ discovery of the arbitrary relation of words and things ushered in the modern age.  A revolutionary document of its own age, Don Quijote confronts us with the complex history of Christians, Jews, and Muslims in early modern Spain, especially, with the conflicts between Christianity and Islam in the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean.  Four centuries before Freud, Cervantes questioned the meaning of madness, inspiring into the close bonds between delusions and fantasy, dreams and artistic production.  Stressing a critique of creation with Cervantes’ own creation, our close reading of Don Quijote will explore its links to the network of institutions, practices, and beliefs that constituted early modern Spanish culture.



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