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What 50 Cent can teach us about Quevedo : the case for using analogy and video clips

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Date
20/10/2019
Author
Bergman, Ted Lars Lennart
Keywords
Anti-heroes
Crime
Music
Ballads
Romances
Jácaras
Hip-hop
Hollywood
Golden Age
Slang
P Language and Literature
I-PW
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Abstract
This paper looks at using modern video clips taken from entertainment media to provide students with content analogous to works of Golden Age literature. The examples of content provided in the paper will all be drawn from an honours-level university module titled ‘Action Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Early Modern Spain’. To provide material for a broader discussion of anti-heroes in which to take a closer look at Golden-Age texts, the instructor plays modern video clips that contain analogous characters, such as criminal alter egos of hip-hop artists (like 50 Cent), or iconic figures played by actors such as Clint Eastwood in the role of ‘Dirty Harry’. While not guaranteed to eliminate all barriers to understanding the material, modern video clips are useful in stimulating the students’ analytical imagination. These supplmentary media make it easier for seminar participants to name relevant abstract themes to be applied to specific difficult texts, such as jácaras that contain obscure slang and unfamiliar contexts.
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Bergman , T L L 2019 , What 50 Cent can teach us about Quevedo : the case for using analogy and video clips . in I Puig & K McLaughlin (eds) , Spanish Golden Age Texts in the Twenty-First Century : Teaching the Old Through the New . Spanish Golden Age Studies , vol. 1 , Peter Lang .
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Spanish Golden Age Texts in the Twenty-First Century
ISSN
2297-5225
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Copyright © 2019 Publisher / the Author. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/65624?tab=toc&result=16&rskey=oQAjxk
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https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/65624?tab=toc&result=16&rskey=oQAjxk
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/20859

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