Undergraduate Course: The Spanish Baroque: Theatre, Literature and Visual Arts in the Golden Age (ELCH10001)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | European Languages and Cultures - Hispanic Studies |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course studies a selection of Spain's most influential and original writers and artists. The seventeenth century saw the emergence of a distinctly modern mentality as old ideas and beliefs were challenged and overturned. Intense political and intellectual turmoil, social unrest and religious uncertainty forced authors and artists to confront, in startling and often disturbing ways, the paradoxes at the heart of their society: extreme doubt and religious fanaticism, sexual violence and idealized love, rigid order and hierarchy and overwhelming chaos.
No prior knowledge of art is required or assumed.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Entry to Spanish Hons required. |
| Additional Costs | None |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The course has two primary objectives:
(1) to appreciate the various social, intellectual and aesthetic factors which led to the creation of the distinctive and highly influential art and literature (prose, poetry, and theatre) of Spain's Golden Age;
(2) to consider whether there are common thematic and stylistic traits between the art and literature of this period sufficient to group both under a common descriptive term, the Baroque.
These objectives will be achieved via a close and contextualized study of key works of the period, and the course's primary interpretative emphasis is on the non-anachronistic understanding of artistic and literary production and reception.
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Assessment Information
Examination.
Presentations/essays produced for seminars, but do not count towards final assessment. |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Jeremy Robbins
Tel: (0131 6)50 3675
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Course secretary | Mrs Fiona Scanlon
Tel: (0131 6)50 3646
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