The Spanish Baroque: Theatre, Literature and Visual Arts in the Golden Age (HS0021)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : LLC-4-HS0021

This course studies a selection of Spain's most influential and original writers and artists. The seventeenth century saw the emergence of a distinctly modern mentality as old ideas and beliefs were challenged and overturned. Intense political and intellectual turmoil, social unrest and religious uncertainty forced authors and artists to confront, in startling and often disturbing ways, the paradoxes at the heart of their society: extreme doubt and religious fanaticism, sexual violence and idealized love, rigid order and hierarchy and overwhelming chaos.

No prior knowledge of art is required or assumed.

Entry Requirements

? Special Arrangements for Entry : For visting students taking Spanish 3 wishing to enrol, the course is available only with the explicit permission of the Course Organiser for Spanish 3 and/or the Convenor of Subject.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

European Languages and Cultures - Hispanic Studies, (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
10/01/2008	14:00	16:00	Room G.1, Clasp Building	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Thursday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The course has two primary objectives:

(1) to appreciate the various social, intellectual and aesthetic factors which led to the creation of the distinctive and highly influential art and literature (prose, poetry, and theatre) of Spain's Golden Age;

(2) to consider whether there are common thematic and stylistic traits between the art and literature of this period sufficient to group both under a common descriptive term, the Baroque.

These objectives will be achieved via a close and contextualized study of key works of the period, and the course's primary interpretative emphasis is on the non-anachronistic understanding of artistic and literary production and reception.