21L.019
Introduction to European and Latin American Fiction
Studies great works of European and Latin American fiction. Attention to a variety of forms including: the picaresque, epistolary, realist, naturalist, and magical realist fiction. Emphasizes ways in which the unique history of each country shaped the imaginative responses of its writers. Authors include Cervantes, Laclos, Goethe, Mann, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Zola, Unamuno, Wolf, García Márquez, and Allende. Taught in English.
Spring 2017 · Introduction to European and Latin American Fiction: Great Books on the Page and on the Screen
Topics
- Introduction to the course
- Lazarillo de Tormes
- Discuss: Lazarillo de Tormes
- Les Liaisons dangereuses
- Discuss: Les Liaisons dangereuses
- Discuss film: Dangerous Liaisons
- Thérèse Raquin
- Discuss: Thérèse Raquin
- Finish: Thérèse Raquin
- Dom Casmurro
- Death in Venice
- Discuss: Death in Venice
- Finish discussion of Kiss , the novel
- Discuss film: Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Discuss: Short stories by Juan Rulfo
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: None U (Spring) 3-0-9 units. HASS-H; CI-H
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2017
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.