Spanish Golden Age Texts in the Twenty-First Century

Idoya Puig is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at Manchester Metropolitan University. She holds a PhD in Cervantes and the Novelas ejemplares from Westfield College, University of London. She has published a number of articles on Cervantes and sixteenth-century Spanish culture and society and is editor of Tradition and Modernity: Cervantes’s Presence in Spanish Contemporary Literature (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009). She is currently exploring ways to harness new media to teach literary classics and to bring literature back into the language class successfully.Karl McLaughlin is Senior Lecturer in Spanish Translation and Interpreting at Manchester Metropolitan University. He holds a PhD in Golden Age literature and is the co-author of a modern edition of the poetry of Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán (1618–c.1684). He has also published various recent articles on the work of this little-known author from Extremadura.

• CONTENTS: Jeremy Lawrance: Why Golden Age? – Stuart Davis: The Golden Age in the Hispanic Studies classroom: The changing shape of what we teach our undergraduates in the UK – Almudena García González: El estudio del mundo literario de la España del siglo diecisiete desde la icción televisiva del siglo ventiuno: autores, obras y contexto presentes en El Ministerio del Tiempo – Ted Bergman: What 50 Cent can teach us about Quevedo: The case for using analogy and video clips – Collin McKinney: The next best thing?: Introducing Don Quijote as a graphic novel – Idoya Puig: Teaching literature and language using a multiliteracies framework: Exploring intercultural skills with Cervantes’s La española inglesa – Jules Whicker: Technologically assisted translational activity: An approach to teaching Spanish Golden Age literature – Karl McLaughlin: Meaningful parallels for students: Golden Age poetic production as examples of talent shows and celebrity spats – Antonio Carreño-Rodríguez: Golden Age ‘diss tracks’: Teaching Baroque poetry and polemic through rap – Rubén Cristóbal Hornillos: La poesía clásica a través de canciones actuales – Aroa Algaba Granero/Sara Sánchez-Hernández El proyecto de innovación docente TAAULA. El teatro áureo en el aula de Filología – Gema Cienfuegos Antelo: Escenas para el aula de E/LE: el personaje femenino en el teatro del Siglo de Oro – Duncan Wheeler: The pedagogic potential (and limitations) of cinematic adaptations

«Spanish Golden Age texts rank among the finest achievements of European literature. This volume will succeed in introducing students to the glories of a wonderful tradition. The contributors deserve congratulations for highlighting the contemporary relevance as well as the originality of enthralling, timeless poetry, prose and drama.» (Peter William Evans , Emeritus Professor of Film Studies, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University of London)«Thoughtful, practical and inspirational, these essays reveal bright perspectives for the MFL classroom in times of change and challenge and new angles for scholarship in Spanish Studies. The power of the stories, images, plots and poems of the Golden Age get connected here to an engine of insight on cultural value, reinterpretation, youth audiences, posterity and educational priorities.» (Chris Perriam, Professor of Hispanic Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester)