Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Paper Sp 10
Introduction to Catalan literature and culture
Primary material for study
Strictly speaking there are no set texts and students will be encouraged to read widely around the material. Below a sample is offered of representative items which the student should find particularly relevant.
Modernism, the Avant-Garde, Catalanism (1900-1939)
- Jaume Aulet, Antologia de la poesia noucentista
- Robert Hughes, Barcelona
- Marilyn McCully, Homage to Barcelona: the city and its art (1888-1936)
- David Mackay, Modern Architecture in Barcelona
- Joan Salvat-Papasseit, Selected Poems
The Years of Resistance (1939-1975)
- Pere Calders, La verge de les vies
- Salvador Espriu, Cementiri de Sinera
- La ciutat cremada (Antoni Riba)
- Joan Fuster, Diccionari per a ociosos
- Mercè Rodoreda, La plaça del diamant
- Vicent Andrés Estellés, 69 Poemes d'amor
The Post Franco Era (1975 to present day)
- Sergi Belbel, Carícies
- Albert Sanchez Pinol, La pell freda; Pandora al Congo
- Joaquim Monzó, El perquè de tot plegat
- La teta i la lluna (Bigas Luna)
- Carícies (Ventura Pons)
- En construcción (J L Guerín)
- Farrera (Martínez Pifarré)
Secondary reading
Language Learning
- M. Wheeler, A. Yates, N. Dols, Catalan: A Comprehensive Grammar
- Diccionari VOX essencial: Anglès-Català/Català-Anglès
- Richmonds Student Dictionary: Anglès-Català/Català-Anglès
- online Catalan-English/English-Catalan Dictionary www.ibiblio.org/dacco/cat/
- Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana www.grec.net/home/cel/dicc.htm
General Essays on Catalan Culture
- Albert Balcells, Catalan Nationalism: Past and Present
- Fuster, J., Literatura catalana contemporània
- Guibernau, M., Catalan Nationalism: Francoism, Transition and Democracy
- Terry A., A Companion to Catalan Literature
- Vallverdú, J., Histària de la literatura catalana 1900-1939, Lletra Encyclopedia of Catalan Culture www.uoc.edu
Critical Works on Specific Authors
1) Joan Salvat-Papasseit- Dominic Keown, Sobre la poesia catalana contemporània
- ----- Salvat-Papasseit: Selected Poems
- ----- Polifonia de la subversió: la poesia de Vicent Andrés Estellés pp. 57-110
- Amanda Bath, 'Introduction' to Pere Calders La verge de les vies
- Agustí Pons, Pere Calders: veritat oculta
- "Brush" story by Pere Calders (translated by Louise Lewis)
- J. M. Castellet, Lord of the shadow: poems by Salvador Espriu
- Salvador Espriu, Selected poems, (translated by Magda Bogin; introduction by Francesc Vallverdu)
- Dominic Keown, Polifonia de la subversió: la poesia de Vicent Andrés Estellés, pp. 111-170
- M. I. Pijoan i Picas, Salvador Espriu o els itineraris de la poesia
- Joan Fuster, Dictionary for the Idle (ed. D Keown)
- Vicent Salvador, Fuster o l'estratàgia del centaure.
- Neus Carbonell, La plaça del Diamant (critical study)
- Kathryn Everly, Catalan Women Writers and Artists: Revisionist Views from a Feminist Space.
- Mercè Ibarz, Exile and Reconstruction: Mercè Rodoreda and Visual Art in the 1950s.
- Mercè Rodoreda, Els miralls interiors (videorecording)
- Kathleen McNerney and Nancy Vosburg (eds), The garden across the border: Mercè Rodoreda's fiction
- Elizabeth A. Scarlett, Under construction: the body in Spanish novels
- Dominic Keown, Sobre la poesia catalana contemporània
- ------ Polifonia de la subversió: la poesia de Vicent Andrés Estellés
- ------ The Liberating Instinct in the Catalan Lyrical Tradition
- webpage, www.monzo.info
- Montserrat Lunati, "Quim Monzó i el cànon occidental: una lectura de 'Pigmaliá'"
- Journal of Catalan Studies www.uoc.es/jocs/2/articles/lunati/index.html
- George and London (eds.), Contemporary Catalan Theatre: An Introduction
- ----- (eds.), Modern Catalan Plays
- Marvin D'Lugo, "La teta i la lluna: The Form of Transnational Cinema in Spain" in Marsha Kinder (ed.), Refiguring Spain: cinema, media, representation (Durham [N.C.]; London: Duke University Press, 1997) pp. 196-214
- Paul Julian Smith, "Between Land and Language: locating Bigas Luna" in The Moderns: Time, Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) pp. 89-107
- Richard Barsam, Nonfiction film: a critical history
- Bill Nichols, Introduction to Documentary
