HISP 341 - Latin Lovers: The Art of Seduction from Ovid through Spain and Latin America

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 HU, CD

This course is canceled effective 10.25.2007.

Ovid is the first poet to equate romance with rhetoric, to see seduction and persuasion as parallel arts. After reading the Ovidian love poems, we will follow a tradition from medieval and Renaissance Spain (El libro de Buen Amor, La Celestina) through to Latin America: the poetry of Pablo Neruda, El amor en los tiempos del cólera by García Márquez, and novellas by Cristina Peri Rossi, José Donoso, and César Aira. Secondary readings on love and rhetoric by Plato, Barthes, Derrida, González Echevarría, and Anne Carson. Taught in Spanish. Enrollment Limit: 20.
Instructor: P. O’Connor