SPAN 435 Religion in Modern and Contemporary Spanish Fiction
This course adopts religion and some of its related core concepts (the sacred, the religious experience, the secular) as a framework to explore modern and contemporary narrative fiction in Spain. Cultural production in Spain since the 19th century offer a rich and complex window into the enduring tensions between the role of secularization and anti-clericalism in the traditional account of modernity. The materials in this course are intended to provide specific insight into this polemic, including the relationship between religion and national identity, the experience of the sublime and the numinous, and spirituality and mysticism in women's writing. We will read texts by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Benito Pérez Galdós, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Ramón J. Sender, María Zambrano, Carmen Laforet, Donato Ndongo, and Manuel Rivas, among others. The course will be conducted in Spanish.
Cross Listed Courses
SPAN 435 & SPAN 635