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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2018 |
Registration ID | SPANB243001 |
Course Title | Temas de la literatura hispana-Mitos coloniales |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies |
Instructor | Gaspar,MartÃn L. |
Times and Days | TTh 12:55pm-02:15pm
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Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1478 This is a topic course. Topics vary. Prerequisite: SPAN B120; or another 200-level. This course can satisfy the Writing Intensive (WI) requirement for the Spanish major. Current topic description: The early writings of the New World straddle between history and fantasy, fact and legend. This period is rich in chronicles that made no distinction between real and imaginary places and creatures, at a time when ambitious colonial enterprises were guided by myths (finding El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, Paradise.) This course examines fantasies of imperial imagination that have persisted to this day by looking at both early chronicles and recent films. Critical Interpretation (CI). Counts toward Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies.; Current topic description: The early writings of the New World straddle between history and fantasy, fact and legend. This period is rich in chronicles that made no distinction between real and imaginary places and creatures, at a time when ambitious colonial enterprises were guided by myths (finding El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, Paradise.) This course examines fantasies of imperial imagination that have persisted to this day by looking at both early chronicles and recent films. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI), Writing Intensive; Haverford: A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (A), Humanities (HU) Enrollment Limit: 15 |
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