Professor Olga Impey
Email: impey@indiana.edu

S628	Topics in Early Modern Spanish Literature
	Topic: “Pastoral Literature in the Spanish Golden Age”

TR 2:30pm – 3:45pm/section #24888/3cr./Ballantine Hall 340

Brief description:  This course will study the most
representative "obras pastoriles" of the sixteenth and seventeenth-
centuries within their own contexts (historical, social and
aesthetic) and in comparison with their subtexts (bucolic traditions
from Virgil to Sannazaro and philosophical theories of love from
Plato to Leone Ebreo).  After a brief introduction to the
medieval "pastorelas" and "serranillas," the course will focus on
Garcilaso’s "Églogas," Montemayor’s "Siete libros de Diana,"
Góngora’s "Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea," Lope de Vega’s "Arcadia,"
Cervantes’s "Galatea" and on pertinent fragments from "Don Quijote."

The principal objective of the course is to show how these works
generate a new amatory and pastoral theory, a theory in which
syncretic appropriation of genres, irony, transgression, and
violence play important roles.

The methodological frame of the course will be based on Yates’s and
Poulet’s studies on memory and time, on Certeau’s book on
heterologies, on El Saffar’s model of structural and thematic
discontinuity, and on other theoretical and critical studies related
to pastoral literature.
The course will be taught in Spanish.  Students will be evaluated on
the basis of their participation in class discussion, several
presentations of theoretical and critical studies, and a 20 pp.
essay.

Please note a possible change in room before the semester begins.