HISP 425 - Acausal Cervantes

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

This course explores Cervantes’s narrative with a focus on acausal accounts, including synchronicities and acausal encounters in space-time, as a way to reflect on the metaphysical dimensions of Cervantes’s work, particularly the way in which it straddles science and religion. We will read Cervantes through early modern theories of magic and religion, but also through more recent approaches, including quantum theory, psychoanalysis, and the theory of relativity. Theorists used include Ficino, Bruno, Camillo, Culianu, Jung, Freud, Einstein and Sheldrake. Taught in Spanish. Enrollment Limit: 15.
Instructor: V. Pérez de León
Prerequisites & Notes
Two Spanish-taught 300-level courses