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HISP 419 - Big Old Funny Books: Cervantes, Rabelais, Sterne


Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD

The early modern European novel revels in what the classical epic shunned: learned wit, bodily functions, and something like a comic philosophy of life. This course will read in careful detail (albeit in translation) Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-34), Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605-15), and Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759-67). We will examine theories of the novel by Lukács and Bakhtin; theories of the comic from Aristotle to Freud; and collateral texts by Borges, Foucault, and Kundera. Bring your own windmills. This course is taught in English.

Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: P. O’Connor

Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or the equivalent.


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