| | 66 | -T-R--- | 11:30A-1:00P | Ridgley / 107 | Schraibman | Dec 17 2018 1:00PM - 3:00PM | 15 | 15 | 0 | | Desc: | THE ORIGINS OF THE SPANISH INQUISITION: HISTORY, LITERATURE, ART. We will explore the conditions that led to the establishment of the Inquisition in 1480, its practices, and its repercussions in Spain, the myths it fostered, and its manifestations in historical and fictional writings, as well as in art. Students will have the opportunity to study its legal aspects, the use of torture, spying, and other methods to insure orthodoxy in the emerging Spanish population after the Reconquest, as well as to learn how the Spanish Inquisition was viewed elsewhere, especially in France and England. We will touch on the tribunals established in the New World, and their impact on the blending of cultures in Mexico, Peru, Colombia and others. We will study historians such as Kamen, Peters, Caro Baoja, Alfonso Toro; excerpts of Cervantes, Quevedo and Lope de Vega; the debates on the Inquisition during the Cortes in 1810, the paintings of Goya. We will view the recent film, "Ghosts of Goya", and discuss how XIX century historians split over the analysis of the Inquisition. In the XXth century, writers such as Francisco Ayala, Ana Maria Matute, Carmen Martin Gayte, Carme Riera and others combined their interest in the historical Inquisition with moral and suggestive creations linking that phenomenon to the Spanish Civil War, and to the emerging freedom of women. We will examine the iconography dealing with the Inquisition and, more recently, the paintings of Manolo Millares, Botero. The Museum of the Inquisition in Lima, in Mexico City, the prison in Cuenca will give us the opportunity to comment on prisons from Cesare Beccaria and Voltaire's condemnations of torture in various modes to our own days. Students will have the opportunity in their papers to compare the Inquisition to other related subjects, law, torture, art architecture, photography, art, music, especially in Latin America and elsewhere.
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| 85 | M-W---- | 10:00A-11:30A | Eads / 215 | Davis | Dec 17 2018 10:30AM - 12:30PM | 15 | 12 | 0 | | Desc: | ROGUE LIVES IN EARLY MODERN HISPANIC CULTURE. This major seminar will study famous narrative "lives" of early modern Spanish and Spanish American characters of humble origins who navigate their way from the known to the unknown, through the ranks of society and a map of global possibilities, trying ingeniously to beat the odds against them by refashioning their original identities to profit in new contexts. Generally recognized as examples of the picaresque, these narrative accounts of wily tricksters nevertheless question very real dynamics of change in the socio-economic and political structures that made daily life a challenge for many acrosss the Spanish empire, through accounts that are both darkly humorous and deeply cynical about Spain's global ambitions. We will focus on performances of social identity that deploy verbal wit and acts of deception to negotiate gender, race and class, in contexts troubled by censorship, poverty, urbanization, loss of family, migration, and spectacular punishmnet for crimes of subsistence. Works to include the anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes and short novels and novellas by Quevedo, Siguenza y Góngora, Cervantes, Zayas and others. This is a writing-intensive course, which requires a minimum of 3 papers of approx. 4-5pp. length, with rewrites; 50% of the grade must come from written work. In Spanish. |
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