“Fictions and the Art of Storytelling: Entre Burlas y Veras”
This course offers an introduction to Medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature through the close-reading of renowned masterpieces of storytelling that have shaped Spanish and Latin American culture. Texts could include remarkable Works, such as Rojas’ tragicomedy, La Celestina, Cervantes’ novel, Don Quijote de la Mancha (selection), Calderón’s drama, La vida es sueño, and Sor Juana’s comedy, Los empeños de una casa. We will also consider key conceptual and formal aspects of various genres (prose, poetry, drama), as well as explore crucial questions in relation to the themes of lies, truth(s) and their many overlaps, which shape our understanding of what is fiction. Taught in Spanish.
