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Undergraduate Course: The Rise and Emergence of the Novel in Golden-Age Spain (ELCH10050)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryHow and when the novel, as a new genre, appeared in the history of literature is still the object of many critical debates; however, a significant number of scholars agree that it was during the Golden Age of Spanish literature. This course will consider the main theories of the novel ? particularly Watt's rise of the novel, Bakhtin's novelisation and emergence of the novel, and Frye's distinction between novel and romance ? in order to consider how these theories apply to the most conspicuous Spanish novels of the 16th and the 17th centuries. In so doing, we will discover the first specimens of the novel in Spain, in the anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes and Mateo Aleman's Guzman de Alfarache. We will also discuss the nature of the picaresque novel and how it had a profound influence upon European literature, especially on the most important 18th-century British novelists. This course will also analyse the foil romance-novel in Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares, with references to Don Quixote (which does not have to be read). Finally, the two most important specimens of the picaresque novel, i.e. Quevedo's El Buscon and Lopez de Ubeda's La picara Justina, will be examined in class in order to understand the decline of the picaresque and the novel.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements Entry to Spanish Hons required, unless taken as part of Spanish 3
Additional Costs Purchase of primary texts
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
The aim of this course is three-fold - it seeks:

(1) to provide an extensive analysis of the Golden-Age novel, specifically of the picaresque novel,
(2) to understand fully and comprehensively the nature of the novel as a literary genre,
(3) to show the relevance of the Spanish picaresque novel in the establishment of the novel as a new genre.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Keywordsnovel, picaresque novel
Contacts
Course organiserProf John Ardila
Tel: (0131 6)50 3679
Email: j.ardila@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Fiona Scanlon
Tel: (0131 6)50 3647
Email: Fiona.Scanlon@ed.ac.uk
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