RALPH BAUER 2115 Susquehanna Hall Department of English University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

Phone: (301) 405 3797 E-Mail: bauerr@umd.edu website: "http://www.mith2.umd.edu/fellows/bauer/home.html"

Schedule

• 9/2: Introduction.
• 9/9:
  • Primary readings:
    • Christopher Columbus, The Journal , and Letter to Raphael Sanxis, and Letter to the Sovereigns. (Presentation: Marie Troppe)
  • Recommended seconary readings:
    • Hayden White, The Tropics of Discourse (Presentation: Kara Candito)
    • Margarita Zamora, Reading Columbus (Presentation: Elizabeth Martin)
    • William D. Phillips, Jr., and Carla Rahn Phillips, The Worlds of Christopher Columbus
    • Mathew Restall Seven myths of the Spanish conquest
    • Roland Greene, Unrequited Conquests: Love and Empire in the Colonial Americas .
• 9/16:
  • Primary readings:
    • Hernando Cortés, Second Letter to Charles V
    • Lope de Aguirre's Letter to to Philip II (restricted access)
  • Recommended seconary readings:
    • Tzvetan Todorov, The Conquest of America (Presentation: Helen DeVinney)
    • Irving Leonard, Books of the Brave
    • William Christian, Local Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain
  • Recommended movie: "Aguirre, or the Wrath of God" (dir. Werner Herzog).
• 9/23:
  • Primary readings:
    • Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, The Account
  • Recommended seconary readings:
    • Beatriz Pastor, The Armature of Conquest (Presentation: Marie Troppe)
    • Fernando Cervantes, The Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain
    • José Rabasa, Writing violence on the northern frontier
  • Recommended movie: "Cabeza de Vaca" (dir. Nicolás Echevarria)
• 9/30:
  • Primary readings:
    • Sir Walter Ralegh, The Discovery of the empire of Guaiana (Presentation: T. J. Moretti)
  • Recommended seconary readings:
    • Stephen Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions (Presentation: Jodean Marks)
    • Stephen Greenblatt, ed. New World Encounters
    • Charles Nicholl, The Creature in the Map
• 10/7:
  • Primary readings:
    • Thomas Hariot, A Briefe and True Reportory (Presentation: Kara Candito)
  • Recommended seconary readings:
    • Julie Solomon, "“To know, to fly, to conjure": situating Baconian science at the juncture of early modern modes of reading,” Renaissance Quarterly v. 44 (Autumn '91) p. 513-58.
    • Bernadette Bucher, Icon and Conquest
    • Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic.
    • Brian P. Levack, ed. Renaissance magic
    • Valerie Flint, The rise of magic in early medieval Europe
• 10/14:
  • Primary readings:
    • George Sandys,
      • Translation of Ovid's Metamorphosis (full selection)
      • Sandys' commentary only
      (Presentation:Helen DeViney)
  • Recommended seconary readings:
    • Eric Cheyfitz, The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan
    • Vaughan Hart,  Art and magic in the court of the Stuarts.
• 10/21:
  • Primary readings:
    • Sandys, cont.
  • Recommended secondary readings:
    • Gesa Mackenthun, Metaphors of Dispossession
    • Walter Mignolo, The Darker Side of the Renaissance.
• 10/28:
  • Primary readings:
    • William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Presentation: Nancy Comorau)
  • Recommended seconary readings:
    • Noel Cobb, Prospero's island : the secret alchemy at the heart of The tempest
    • Charles Nicholl, The chemical theatre
    • Peter Hulme and William H. Sherman, eds. "The tempest" and its travels
    • Julie Solomon, "Going Places: Absolutism and Movement in Shakespeare's The Tempest." Renaissance Drama, N. S. 22 (1991): 3-43. (Presentation: Tim Crowly).
    • Peter Hulme, Colonial Encounters (Presentation: Margaret Sinclair)
    • John Demaray, Shakespeare and the spectacles of strangeness : The tempest and the transformation of Renaissance theatrical forms
    • Thomas O. Jones, Renaissance magic and hermeticism in the Shakespeare sonnets : like prayers divine
  • Recommended movie: "Prospero's Books" (dir. Peter Greenaway).