SP4017 (R)evolutions in Early Modern Love Lyric: Perilous, Provocative, Parodic

Academic year

2023 to 2024 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Dr P J Lennon

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Module Staff

Dr P Lennon

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Module description

This module serves as a high-level introduction to Spanish love lyric in the Early Modern period. It charts what one might term the (r)evolutions in amatory poetry throughout the Renaissance and Baroque periods via some of the finest poets of the age. You will begin with a firm grounding in Petrarch, the rise and circulation of Petrarchist poetics, and the key debates in Neoplatonism that spread throughout Europe and beyond, which underpinned much of the love lyric of the period. The poets who follow fit within one of the three broad camps that appear in the subtitle: perilous, provocative, and parodic. You will consider the rise of the love sonnet and the national figure of Garcilaso de la Vega, engage with research-led teaching on Juan Boscán's move away from courtly poetics and Francisco de Aldana's move towards physicality, as well as the parodic lyric of Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán and Lope de Vega's fictional Tomé de Burguillos.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

PERMISSION OF THE SPANISH HONOURS ADVISER. YOU MUST HAVE PASSED SP2002.

Co-requisites

COMPULSORY MODULES FOR SINGLE AND MAJOR SPANISH PROGRAMMES.

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

3-hour Written Examination = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 seminar and 1 surgery hour.

Scheduled learning hours

17

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

132

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.