Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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SPAN 6690 - [Space, Place, and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Spain]

(crosslisted)
(also MEDVL 6690 )
Spring. 4 credits.

Next offered 2015-2016. This is the required graduate seminar for Spanish graduate students. Conducted in Spanish.

S. Pinet.

This graduate seminar will explore configurations of space and place in different narrative genres of the Spanish middle ages and the renaissance.  Topics to be addressed include didacticism, empire, local/global, frontier, loci, urbs/orbe; through cartography, cartographic writing, human geography and the production of space/place within genres such as epic, lyric, hagiography, picaresque, novel and drama.  Theoretical texts that will inform these readings will include Michel de Certeau, David Woodward, Henri Lefebyre, Yi-Fu Tuan, Ed Casey, David Harvey, Denis Cosgrove.



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