Notes regarding credits...

This course consists of 40 hours of instruction. However, students may earn 45 hours by attending supplemental sessions and completing additional coursework. Please check with your home university to find out whether you need 40 or 45 hours to earn course equivalents.

Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

High Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of five semesters (or seven quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

1. Introduction
The period that encompasses this class is one of the most fundamental, not only for understanding Spanish literature, but for understanding the culture and history of Spain as well. Because of this, the objectives for this course are to introduce the students to important texts and at the same time providing the possibility to deepen in their knowledge of the language, and put them in contact with the greatest masters of our literature.
2. Program
1. The birth of Spanish literature in the Middle Ages. Principal types. The Romances. La Celestina.
2. Introduction to the Renaissance period. Specific problems of the Spanish Renaissance. Linguistic, political, and religious unity. Humanism. The literary genres.
3. Petrarchism in Spain. Garcilaso de la Vega. The new metric structure. Love and nature in his poetry.
4. Religious literature. Fray Luis de León. Works in prose. Poetry. Its style.
5. The Picaresque novel. El Lazarillo de Tormes, the first modern novel. The structure of the work.
6. Miguel de Cervantès. Poetic works. Dramatic works. Cervantes and the novel of his time.
7. Miguel de Cervantes. El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. The structure of the novel. The importance of Don Quijote.
8. Introduction to the Baroque period. Spain in the XVII century. The crisis of Renaissance Idealism. The Baroque aesthetic. The literary language. The literary genres. Poetry. The novel. The theatre.
9. Baroque poetry. The poetic language of Luis de Góngora. Classification of his work. The great poems.
10. Francisco de Quevedo. His complex personality. Quevedo the prose writer. The metaphysical, satirical, amorous, and moral poet.
11. The theatre in the XVII century. The Spanish scene. The formation of the comedy. The structure of the dramatic work. The theatre as an ideological instrument. Principle authors.
12. Lope de Vega, the creator of the Spanish comedy. Fuenteovejuna, drama of honor and historical work.
13. Calderón de la Barca. His contribution to Baroque theatre. La Vida Es Sueño. Los Autos Sacramentales.

3. Activities
The development of the course begins with commentary over texts of which the majority will be provided by the professor and the readings that the students should do on their own. Rounding out the course will be other cultural activities organized by the center or the university (visits, conferences, etc.), that have a relation to the program.

4. Evaluation
The evaluation will consist of attention and participation in class (20%), reading and expression (30%), and the fulfillment of two written exercises (50%).

5. Bibliography
Anónimo, Lazarillo de Tormes, eds. Cátedra, Anaya, Castalia, etc..
CERVANTES, M., D. Quijote de la Mancha, (caps. 1,2,3,4) eds. Cátedra
LOPE DE VEGA., Fuenteovejuna, eds. Cátedra y otras.
RICO, F., Historia y crítica de la Literatura española, vols. II y III, Barcelona ed. Critica, 1982.
Varios, Historia de la Literatura española, vols II y III, Madrid, Everest
LÁZARO CARRETER, F. y VICENTE TUSÓN., Literatura española BUP),
Madrid, Anaya, 1993.