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<p class="MsoNormal">Just a quick reminder that this year’s CMRS advanced seminar is on “Cervantes and the Mediterranean World” – full description and book list below. As a 5000-level course, this is open to both undergraduate and graduate students for credit
(note the prerequisite for undergrads, though this may be waived with equivalent coursework). If you are still exploring potential electives or haven’t registered yet for SP15, please consider this course!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">MEDREN # 5695, <i>Cervantes and the Mediterranean World</i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Spring 2015<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Prof. Elizabeth Davis, Iberian Studies, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="line-height:17.4pt"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Lecture: Undergrad - 30057, Graduate - 30056<br>
Time: WF 12:45 - 2:05PM<br>
Room: Journalism 353<br>
Instructor: Elizabeth Davis<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height:17.4pt"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Prerequisite: 6 credit hours in MEDREN at the 2000 level or above, or grad standing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:24.0pt"><b>Course Description<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Miguel de Cervantes is known primarily for his masterpiece, <i>
Don Quijote de la Mancha</i> (1605 and 1615), which some literary historians consider the first modern novel. Cervantes, however, wrote much more than the
<i>Quijote</i>. His works include a pastoral novel (<i>La Galatea</i>, 1585), an important collection of novellas (<i>Exemplary Novels</i>, 1613), a romance beloved by the writer (<i>The Labors of Persiles y Sigismunda</i>), and a number of well known plays.
In some ways, Cervantes’s life was as wide-ranging as his work. Striking out on his own down the roads heading south to Seville and east to the Mediterranean ports of the Levant, he was one of the few early modern Spanish writers who made his career mostly
away from the Court. In fact, his intimate familiarity with the wide Mediterranean World at large derived primarily from his experience as a soldier and a prisoner. It is well known that Cervantes fought against the Ottoman navy under Don John of Austria at
the Battle of Lepanto (1571), and that he wore his wounds from that battle as a badge of honor for the rest of his life. Nevertheless, Cervantes’s renegotiation of Islam in literature occurs first and foremost in the context of Ottoman-controlled Algiers,
where the writer himself spent five years as a captive in the Algerian bagnios. This course will focus on the ways in which some of Cervantes’s narrative and dramatic works make visible the tensions and transactions on the waters and the shores of the disputed
Mediterranean sea. While a reading knowledge of Spanish is certainly a plus, the Cervantine works and secondary sources for this course are available in English, and the course will be taught entirely in English.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Books ordered for this course:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>1. </b><i>Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape</i> (Hardback - 1999)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">by Predrag Matvejevic (Author)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hardback: 218 pages<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Publisher: University of California Press (1999)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Language: English<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ISBN: 0-520-20738-6<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">*Please note: this book must be purchased used online.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>2.</b> <i>Don Quixote</i> (Penguin Classics) Paperback – February 25, 2003<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Author), John Rutherford (Editor, Translator), Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria (Introduction)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paperback: 1072 pages<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Publisher: Penguin Classics (February 25, 2003)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Language: English<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ISBN-10: 0142437239<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ISBN-13: 978-0142437230<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>3.</b> <i>"The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity.</i> Paperback – August 2, 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">by Miguel de Cervantes (Author), Barbara Fuchs (Translator), Aaron J. Ilika (Translator)
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<p class="MsoNormal">Paperback: 208 pages<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (August 2, 2012)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Language: English<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ISBN-10: 0812222156<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ISBN-13: 978-0812222159<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>4. WHICHEVER IS EASIEST TO GET, NOT SACRIFICING QUALITY. EITHER:</b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>The Exemplary Novels</i>: Complete Edition Paperback – September 27, 2013<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Author), Walter K. Kelly (Translator).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paperback: 300 pages<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (September 27, 2013)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Language: English<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ISBN-10: 149283243X<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ISBN-13: 978-1492832430<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>OR:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>The Exemplary Novels</i> of Cervantes Paperback – January 10, 2007<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Author)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paperback: 496 pages<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Publisher: BiblioBazaar (January 10, 2007)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Language: English<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ISBN-10: 0554037025<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ISBN-13: 978-0554037028<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>5.</b> <i>An Early Modern Dialogue with Islam: Antonio de Sosa's Topography of Algiers (1612)</i> (History Lang and Cult Spanish Portuguese). Paperback – April 15, 2011<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">by Antonio de Sosa (Author), Maria Antonia Garces (Editor), Diana de Armas Wilson (Translator)
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<p class="MsoNormal">Series: History Lang and Cult Spanish Portuguese<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Paperback: 432 pages<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press; 1st Edition edition (April 15, 2011)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Language: English<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ISBN-10: 0268029784<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ISBN-13: 978-0268029784<o:p></o:p></p>
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