Suspicious Truths and Alternative Realities: Spanish Literature of the Renaissance and the…

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Concerns about discerning certainty and facts from misinformation and delusion explored in all sorts of intellectual pursuits from literature and the visual arts to science, politics, and economics across Spain and the Americas during the 16th and 17th centuries. A guided tour of key works and major questions in conversation with contemporary observations about deception and disinformation. Prerequisite: Spanish 332, 333, 334 or 335.