COL 250
Spring 2010 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
IBST 304 |
This course will examine conceptualizations of memory and history--as themes and as discursive strategies--as they intersect in Spanish (primarily narrative) texts from the late 19th to the turn of the 21st century. Issues to be addressed will include the narrativity of historiographic texts and the possible historicity of fiction, as well as conceptual integration and transference between the private past of memory and the public domain of national history. Readings will include works influenced by 19th-century notions of the Spanish national character and the generation of 98's critical revision of this legacy; examples of historical fiction and drama; the so-called "novel of memory," which focuses major events in contemporary Spanish history through characters' personal recollections; and the recent novel of historical inquiry, where characters situated in post-Franco Spain engage with a mysterious or conflictive past in an investigative process that commingles personal memory and national history. This most recent development in Spanish narrative will be considered in the context of late-20th-century public debates on historical memory, with its underlying metaphorical conceptualizations of society as a remembering subject and accession to historical truth as resistance to amnesia or resolution of a mystery. Work on conceptual metaphor by George Lakoff and his associates in the field of cognitive linguistics will guide our reflection on the metaphorics of historical memory. |
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Essential Capabilities:
None |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA COL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
Major Readings:
Selections from cultural studies, narrative and critical theory, as well as reviews and articles on specific films.
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Examinations and Assignments:
One short paper and a longer final paper. Prospective students must contact the instructor during the fall term preregistration period for spring term courses, by email, in order to obtain specifics concerning Permission of Instructor. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Class attendance and thoughtful participation are essential. This is a Permission of Instructor (POI) course. Instructor will ask students to fill out a questionnaire that may be obtained from the English Department in November 2005, and will then interview selected candidates who contact him to schedule appointments later that semester. Only juniors and seniors may apply. E-mail is the best way to contact instructor; ktololyan@wesleyan.edu. Note that an interview is the second step in the selection process and not a guarantee of admission. |
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