[Cmrsundergrad] REMINDER: MEDREN 5695 - Cervantes and the Mediterranean World (SP15)

[Spitulski, Nicholas]

Dear Students,

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!

Best,
Nick

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MEDREN # 5695, Cervantes and the Mediterranean World
Spring 2015
Prof. Elizabeth Davis, Iberian Studies, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese


Lecture: Undergrad - 30057, Graduate - 30056
Time: WF 12:45 - 2:05PM
Room: Journalism 353
Instructor: Elizabeth Davis

Prerequisite: 6 credit hours in MEDREN at the 2000 level or above, or grad standing.

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Course Description

Miguel de Cervantes is known primarily for his masterpiece, Don Quijote de la Mancha (1605 and 1615), which some literary historians consider the first modern novel. Cervantes, however, wrote much more than the Quijote. His works include a pastoral novel (La Galatea, 1585), an important collection of novellas (Exemplary Novels, 1613), a romance beloved by the writer (The Labors of Persiles y Sigismunda), 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.

Books ordered for this course:

1. Mediterranean: A Cultural Landscape (Hardback - 1999)
by Predrag Matvejevic (Author)
Hardback: 218 pages
Publisher: University of California Press (1999)
Language: English
ISBN: 0-520-20738-6
*Please note: this book must be purchased used online.

2. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics) Paperback – February 25, 2003
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Author), John Rutherford (Editor, Translator), Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria (Introduction)
Paperback: 1072 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (February 25, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0142437239
ISBN-13: 978-0142437230

3.  "The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana": Two Plays of Captivity. Paperback – August 2, 2012
by Miguel de Cervantes (Author), Barbara Fuchs (Translator), Aaron J. Ilika (Translator)
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (August 2, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0812222156
ISBN-13: 978-0812222159

4. WHICHEVER IS EASIEST TO GET, NOT SACRIFICING QUALITY. EITHER:

The Exemplary Novels: Complete Edition Paperback – September 27, 2013
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Author), Walter K. Kelly (Translator).
Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (September 27, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 149283243X
ISBN-13: 978-1492832430

OR:

The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes Paperback – January 10, 2007
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Author)
Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: BiblioBazaar (January 10, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0554037025
ISBN-13: 978-0554037028


5.  An Early Modern Dialogue with Islam: Antonio de Sosa's Topography of Algiers (1612) (History Lang and Cult Spanish Portuguese). Paperback – April 15, 2011
by Antonio de Sosa (Author), Maria Antonia Garces (Editor), Diana de Armas Wilson (Translator)
Series: History Lang and Cult Spanish Portuguese
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press; 1st Edition edition (April 15, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0268029784
ISBN-13: 978-0268029784



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Nick Spitulski
Program Coordinator
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