SPAN9934 · Romance Languages and Literatures
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
Course conducted in Spanish and fulfills the Pre-1800 Peninsular literature and culture requirement for HS majors. This course focuses on Don Quixote, which is considered the world's first modern (and postmodern) novel. We will address the strategies of authorship, appropriation, fake, plagiarism, and metafiction in Cervantes' novel. We will also explore connections with various apocryphal and appropriated versions by Iberian and Latin American authors, successors of this Cervantes tradition, up to Artificial Intelligence (AI), as well as the processes of adaptation to other media (theater, film, and television).
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4.3 / 5
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Challenge
4.8 / 5
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Attendance
4.5 / 5
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Assignments
4.8 / 5
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Weekly effort
~5
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Spring 2025
1 section