SPAN 321: Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature
Course description:
Reading and discussion of selected masterworks of literature as they reflect the historical, political, and social context of the Peninsular Spanish experience. Students will be introduced to reading and writing critically, and will discuss both form and content within these works. All discussions will be carried out in Spanish. (Prereq: SPAN 304)
Meets MLO 3
Course Reflective Narrative:
The SPAN course: 321 Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature, helped me in several ways to meet my academic goals. In the course of the class we have touched on topics such as: The Middle Ages and the time of the Catholic Monarchs, the beginnings of Modernity or the Golden Age, The eighteenth century: The Enlightenment, The nineteenth century: From Romanticism to Naturalism, Generation of '98 and Modernism, and currently Spain in the twentieth and twenty-first century. During the course of this class I have achieved the goals that I set myself since the beginning of the class. I can now identify the main literary movements of Spanish literature, I can also describe the characteristics of the main literary movements of Spanish literature, identify and describe aspects of the life and work of the main Spanish writers, I learned to analyze fragments of texts literary highlights of Spanish literature, describe and explain the relationship between the historical moment, and the different literary movements and the different trends of literary criticism.
I learned what literature is, it is the use of imagination to be able to express a deeper truth and it is a way to express different concepts through literature. We started with the Middle Ages and the Time of the Catholic Kings, what dominated during that era was the religious, and how people think that everything works. Then came the defeat of the Roman Empire at the end of the fifth century and the unification of Spain under the Catholic Kings at the end of the fifteenth century. The Roman conquest brought with it demographic growth, urbanization and agricultural expansion. Another result of the Roman Spanish domain was the spread of Christianity in the peninsula. We studied what is a jarcha, The epic, Cantar de mio Cid, Mester de Clerecía, Gonzalo de Berceo, Miracles of Our Lady, Alfonso X the Wise, with his cantigas, The seven games among others.
Later, I learned about the principles of modernity or the Golden Age that includes: The poetic revival with Garcilaso de la Vega, Bernal Díaz del Castillo with the true story of the conquest of New Spain, The pre-Hispanic theater: Lope de Rueda, Cuckold and happy among others more.
In the eighteenth century: The illustration, we look at Fray Benito Jerónimo, José Cadalso, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Juan Meléndez Valdés, The fabulists and Leandro Frenández de Moratín. Later, the nineteenth century followed: From Romanticism to Naturalism, which was the priciple of Romanticism with José de Espronceda, and his Pirate Song, Canto a Teresa. The box of customs, romantic theater among others.
The activities that helped me learn about peninsular literature were the ones we did inside the class as well as activities outside of class. During some classes we worked in groups and the teacher assigned us a topic from those we were seeing at that time and we went to the board to write the information we got in the group, then we went one by one analyzing and adding more information to each category. This form of study helped me remember the authors and their works.
Another of the activities in class is that the teacher gave us one of the works to analyze in groups and structure that helped me a lot in how to learn to be a literary analysis, because I had never done a literary analysis before. Outside of class we had readings, among them we had to put the name of the poets and write something of their biography and their works. We also had online classes in which we were given a work and we had to do a literary analysis to deliver. Another activity that we did outside of class to memorize and be able to keep all the information in our long-term memory was when the teacher made us leave class and go through the Spanish department going room by room and gave us a vision that in each fourth there were some authors and their works, this helped me a lot to remember the authors and their works.
The new knowledge I got in this course that I did not have before was how to analyze and structure a literary analysis. When I started this course I had no idea what was a literary analysis, but I was learning little by little with the activities in class and outside of class. I also learned about all these authors and their works.
Questions I do not have believe that the course covered not only a little of the biography of these authors, but also their main work.
The SPAN course: 321 Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature, helped me in several ways to meet my academic goals. In the course of the class we have touched on topics such as: The Middle Ages and the time of the Catholic Monarchs, the beginnings of Modernity or the Golden Age, The eighteenth century: The Enlightenment, The nineteenth century: From Romanticism to Naturalism, Generation of '98 and Modernism, and currently Spain in the twentieth and twenty-first century. During the course of this class I have achieved the goals that I set myself since the beginning of the class. I can now identify the main literary movements of Spanish literature, I can also describe the characteristics of the main literary movements of Spanish literature, identify and describe aspects of the life and work of the main Spanish writers, I learned to analyze fragments of texts literary highlights of Spanish literature, describe and explain the relationship between the historical moment, and the different literary movements and the different trends of literary criticism.
I learned what literature is, it is the use of imagination to be able to express a deeper truth and it is a way to express different concepts through literature. We started with the Middle Ages and the Time of the Catholic Kings, what dominated during that era was the religious, and how people think that everything works. Then came the defeat of the Roman Empire at the end of the fifth century and the unification of Spain under the Catholic Kings at the end of the fifteenth century. The Roman conquest brought with it demographic growth, urbanization and agricultural expansion. Another result of the Roman Spanish domain was the spread of Christianity in the peninsula. We studied what is a jarcha, The epic, Cantar de mio Cid, Mester de Clerecía, Gonzalo de Berceo, Miracles of Our Lady, Alfonso X the Wise, with his cantigas, The seven games among others.
Later, I learned about the principles of modernity or the Golden Age that includes: The poetic revival with Garcilaso de la Vega, Bernal Díaz del Castillo with the true story of the conquest of New Spain, The pre-Hispanic theater: Lope de Rueda, Cuckold and happy among others more.
In the eighteenth century: The illustration, we look at Fray Benito Jerónimo, José Cadalso, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Juan Meléndez Valdés, The fabulists and Leandro Frenández de Moratín. Later, the nineteenth century followed: From Romanticism to Naturalism, which was the priciple of Romanticism with José de Espronceda, and his Pirate Song, Canto a Teresa. The box of customs, romantic theater among others.
The activities that helped me learn about peninsular literature were the ones we did inside the class as well as activities outside of class. During some classes we worked in groups and the teacher assigned us a topic from those we were seeing at that time and we went to the board to write the information we got in the group, then we went one by one analyzing and adding more information to each category. This form of study helped me remember the authors and their works.
Another of the activities in class is that the teacher gave us one of the works to analyze in groups and structure that helped me a lot in how to learn to be a literary analysis, because I had never done a literary analysis before. Outside of class we had readings, among them we had to put the name of the poets and write something of their biography and their works. We also had online classes in which we were given a work and we had to do a literary analysis to deliver. Another activity that we did outside of class to memorize and be able to keep all the information in our long-term memory was when the teacher made us leave class and go through the Spanish department going room by room and gave us a vision that in each fourth there were some authors and their works, this helped me a lot to remember the authors and their works.
The new knowledge I got in this course that I did not have before was how to analyze and structure a literary analysis. When I started this course I had no idea what was a literary analysis, but I was learning little by little with the activities in class and outside of class. I also learned about all these authors and their works.
Questions I do not have believe that the course covered not only a little of the biography of these authors, but also their main work.
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