Spanish 384 - Love

Spring
2014
01
4.00
Ilan Stavchansky
TTH 11:30AM-12:50PM
Amherst College
SPAN-384-01-1314S
CONV 108
istavans@amherst.edu
SPAN-384-01,EUST-233-01

(Offered as SPAN 384 and EUST 233.) This panoramic, interdisciplinary course will explore the concept of love as it changes epoch to epoch and culture to culture. Poetry, novels, paintings, sculptures, movies, TV, and music will be featured. Starting with the Song of Songs, it will include discussions of Plato, Aristotle, Catullus, and other Greek classics, move on to Dante and Petrarch, contemplate Chinese, Arabic, African, and Mesoamerican literatures, devote a central unit to Shakespeare, continue with the Metaphysical poets, and move on to American literature. Special attention will be paid to the difference between love, eroticism, and pornography. Multilingual students will be encouraged to delve into various linguistic traditions, in tongues like French, Russian, German, Yiddish, and Spanish. Conducted in English.


Llimited to 20 students.  Spring semester.  Professor Stavans.

Permission is required for interchange registration during all registration periods.
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