Voices of Spain: Exploring Classic and Modern Spanish Literature

Catalog description

This course introduces students to the study of Spanish literature through analytical readings of essays, poetry, drama, and fiction of representative Spanish writers from medieval to contemporary times. The selected authors to be studied reflect Spanish society’s cultural and political efforts conducive to a nation-building process. Among the topics to be covered are literary and artistic movements, nationalist and religious discourses, cultural miscegenation, gender issues, regional, political, and class conflicts, the role of the intellectual, and strategies for constructing identities. This course satisfies the Inquiry Seminar to complete the HUA requirement in Spanish and would also count toward International and Global Studies. In addition, this course would benefit students interested in WPI’s Project Centers in Spain. This course is taught at an advanced level of Spanish. This course will be offered in 2026-2027, and in alternating years thereafter. Recommended Background SP3521 and 3522