David Darst Address and Phone: Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics Florida State University 304 Diffenbaugh Building Tallahassee, FL 32306-1540 850-644-8185 (Office) ddarst@mailer.fsu.edu(Email) Office Hrs: MWF 9:00-11:00

David Darst

Spanish Golden Age literature; Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque Humanities; philosophies of love; Albert Schweitzer.
Books include Imitatio: Polémicas sobre la imitación en el Siglo de Oro español (1985), Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1987), and Converting Fiction: Counter Reformational Closure in the Secular Literature of Golden Age Spain (1998). Current research is on the various manifestations of love philosophies in the European Middle Ages, and the writings of Francisco de Quevedo.

Courses for Spring 2001

Undergraduate
SPW 4201 Masterpieces of Modern Spanish Literature
Darst, MWF 1:25-2:15

Description: Reading and discussion of complete short works by Spain's most famous nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers: El Duque de Rivas, Espronceda, Bécquer, Alarcón, Blasco Ibáñez, Unamuno, Aleixandre, Lorca, Machado, Matute, Arrabal, Cela.

Texts: Darst, Sendas literarias: España; Lorca, Bodas de sangre.
Handouts: poetry by Bécquer and Lorca, short stories by Matute and Cela.

Evaluation: There will be four or five 1 to 2 page takehome essays, three hour exams and no final exam.  (prerequisites: SPW 3100 and SPW 3101, or equivalent)

Graduate
SPW 5216 Spanish Golden Age Prose
Darst, MW 3:35-4:50

Description: This course covers all the prose fiction reading materials on the Golden Age portion (1492-1700) of the MA and PhD reading lists.  The student will be expected to understand the style, genre, content, artistic merit, and historical significance each work holds within the Spanish literary tradition of the late fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries.  The lectures will emphasize the meanings these texts may have held for the author and his audience at the time of their publication.

Readings: Cárcel de amor, Diego de San Pedro; La Celestina, Fernando de Rojas; Los siete libros de la Diana, Jorge de Montemayor; Lazarillo de Tormes; Don Pablos de Segovia. El Buscón, Quevedo; Novelas ejemplares, Cervantes; "La fuerza del amor," Zayas y Sotomayor; "Más puede el amor que la sangre," Castillo Solórzano; "El alguacil endemoniado," "El mundo por de dentro," Quevedo.

Evaluation:  Essays and term paper.