THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN GUADALAJARA

Love and Eroticism in Spanish Golden Age Poetry

This course will focus on the cultural changes and continuities that define the notions of love, sex, and eroticism throughout Spanish Renaissance and Baroque literature. With a selective reading of poetry from Spain and the Viceroyalties, we will study examples of their Platonic, Neoplatonic, courtly, and Petrarchan manifestations. Additionally, we will analyze human-human and human-divine relationships within a framework of amorous and mystic literature. We will read texts by Garcilaso, Herrera, Aldana, Teresa de Ávila, San Juan de la Cruz, Leonor de Ovando, Diego Dávalos y Figueroa, Lope de Vega, Sor Juana, among others. (1 Unit)

Required texts: Ovidio, Arte de amar (any edition); Mercedes Serna, Poesía colonial hispanoamericana. Siglos XVI & XVII (Madrid: Cátedra, 2004); Elias Rivers, Poesía lírica del Siglo de Oro (Madrid: Cátedra, 2005); additional readings will be announced in the syllabus, and will be available electronically.