SPAN 324 - Visions of the Nation: Romanticism and the Generation of 1898

FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2012 and alternate years

Prerequisites: SPAN 215 or 275, and SPAN 220. A study of the contrasting identities of Spain, her land and peoples, as represented by Romanticism and the Generation of 1898. From the romantic period students read the popular and folkloric “romances” of Duque de Rivas and the works of Mariano José de Larra. Works from the more philosophical Generation of 1898 include: El árbol de la ciencia by P’o Baroja, the poetry of Antonio Machado, and various texts of Miguel de Unamuno. Staff.