SP4015 Action Heroes and Anti-heroes in Early-Modern Spain

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

Curricular information may be subject to change

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

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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 T L L Bergman

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Module Staff

Dr T Bergman

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Module description

This module will introduce prose, poetry, theatre, and songs that were written mostly for entertainment in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain. All works will center around a single protagonist who creates sympathy and enthusiasm in the audience by committing acts of bravery, daring, and cleverness. He or she thus becomes a hero (or heroine) or anti-hero (or anti-heroine) depending on the legality of the act, and the opinion of the audience. Works studied for this module feature superhero-like knights, real stories from soldiers of fortune, but also violent men and women on the wrong side of the law.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS SP2002

Co-requisites

COMPULSORY MODULES FOR SINGLE AND MAJOR SPANISH PROGRAMMES

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment