HISP 408 - (Neo)Baroque: Culture of Excess

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 HU, CD
Baroque, Barroco: i.e, the marvellous, complex, shocking, weird, queer—excess. In the seventeenth century, it was the “first” international style, connecting both sides of the Atlantic, a tool of absolutism and colonialism. In the twentieth, the neo-baroque becomes the trademark style of Latin(o) American intellectuals, filmmakers, artists (Carpentier, Lezama Lima, Sarduy, González Echevarría, Gómez-Peña). We consider literary figures (Góngora, Calderón, Quevedo), painters (Velázquez), (art) historians, philosophers (Ortega, Deleuze, Bataille). Taught bilingually (Span/Eng), writing in Spanish, other languages welcome.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: F. Gómez Herrero
Consent of the Instructor Required? No
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: Two Spanish-taught 300-level courses.