Literature and Society in Golden Age of Spain (HS0023)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : LLC-4-HS0023

This course will provide an opportunity to study the literary culture of Spain in an age when it had become the foremost power in the world. It will focus on a selection of narrative and dramatic works by major authors of the period. These works will be evaluated as literary artefacts in their own right, and also as texts that reflect the dominant values of society as well as the conflicts it sought to resolve.

Entry Requirements

? Co-requisites : This course is available for students taking Senior Honours who have been granted a place on it during their third year of study or, with the explicit approval of the Course Director for Spanish 3 and/or Convenor of Subject, and numbers permitting, for students taking Spanish 3.

? 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 1 (Blocks 1-2)

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

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
24/09/2007	16:00	18:00	Room 11.01, David Hume Tower	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Monday	16:10	18:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Via a close textual study of key texts of the Spanish Golden Age, this option aims to foster an understanding of the ways writers engaged with contemporary society and culture to produce the first modern novel, "Don Quixote", and a national theatre that explored key moral, religious and gender issues of the early modern period.