SPAN 6230 El Barroco de Indias

SPAN 6230 El Barroco de Indias
El Barroco de Indias
Assessment of the Baroque in Spain's American viceroyalties during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in its relation to contemporary European literary practices, political culture, and religious values. Readings of works by Europeans (Góngora, Quevedo, Calderón de la Barca, Gracián) as well as Americans of European descent (Balbuena, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Espinosa Medrano, Peralta Barnuevo). Also considered are modern re-interpretations of the place of the Baroque in Spanish America's cultural tradition (Picón Salas, Lezama Lima, Paz, Sarduy).
Pre-requistites: 4000-level sequence; satisfies pre-twentieth-century requirement.
credit hours: 3