RLSP 202
1898: Spain's Fin de Siglo and the Crisis of Ideas Spring 2010
Division I Writing Skills
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In this tutorial we will read the works of some of modern Spain’s influential writers from the late part of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth. Our aim is to understand how fiction and philosophy represented this significant time in Spain’s history. The loss of the war with the U.S. in 1898, the turbulent shifts of power within the country, Spanish regional identities, and the cultural and intellectual movements that shaped Spain on the eve of the Civil War are among the key issues we will address. Our primary sources–largely fiction and poetry by artists such as Miguel de Unamuno, Azorín, Ramiro de Maeztú, Antonio Machado, Pío Baroja–will be complemented with a rigorous study of the cultural landscape of Spain at that time. Our principal engagement with philosophy will be through José Ortega y Gasset, in particular his output from the 1920s. Conducted entirely in Spanish.
The Class: Format: tutorial
Limit: 10
Expected: 10
Class#: 3352
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: students will be teamed in groups of two, and alternate in writing essays and critiquing these each week; essays will be 5 to 8 pages long
Prerequisites: Spanish 105, or results of the Williams College Placement Exam, or permission of the instructor
Enrollment Preferences: sophomores
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills

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