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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Fall 2024 |
| Registration ID | SPANB348001 |
| Course Title | Fictions of Confessions |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies |
| Instructor | Phipps,Kathryn |
| Times and Days | MW 01:10pm-02:30pm
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| Room Location | TAYB |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2077 Viewing the form of confession as a vehicle for both truth and fiction, this course engages the embedded politics of Early Modern confessional production to examine notions of agency, exploitation, and representation in a diverse selection of confessional works. As a textual conceit, confession ties together a broad array of narrative forms: autobiography, eye-witness accounts, medieval narrative poetry, hagiography, colonial chronicles, picaresque novels, mystical writings, theological treatises, testimonials, novels, and Inquisitorial archives. In this course students will hear the stories of pirates, non-gender-conforming surgeons, nuns, Inca kings, enslaved women and more. Through these testimonies, students will gain familiarity with the foundational history, literature, and theory related to the study of early modernity. Prerequisite: SPAN 120 or one 200-level course. Approach: Course does not meet an Approach, Writing Attentive; Haverford: B: Analysis of the Social World (B), A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (A) Enrollment Cap: 15.If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the lottery criteria will be used for the lottery: Majors by class (seniors, then juniors, then sophomores), then Minors by class (seniors, then juniors). |
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