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Apr 18, 2024
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HISP 419 - Big Old Funny Books: Cervantes, Rabelais, SterneFC ARHU CD
4 credits
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) Rabelaiss Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532-34), Cervantess Don Quixote (1605-15), and Laurence Sternes Tristram Shandy (1759-67). We will examine theories of the novel by Luks and Bakhtin; theories of the comic from Aristotle to Freud; and collateral texts by Borges, Foucault, and Kundera. Bring your own windmills. Taught in English.
Prerequisites & Notes: HISP 304 or the equivalent.
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