Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Part I Paper SP1: Introduction to the Language, Literatures and Cultures of the Spanish-speaking World
Reading List
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Students are strongly encouraged to read as many texts as possible from the reading list over the summer vacation. They are advised to read the following as A MINIMUM by the time of their arrival in Cambridge: Lazarillo de Tormes, García Lorca's Romancero Gitano, García Márquez's Cien años de soledad, and Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct.
Where the Department recommends a specific edition or editions, details are given in the reading list below.
Select Bibliography
SECTION A (Medieval and Golden Age Spain)
Jorge Manrique, Coplas por la muerte de su padre
- Recommended edition: Manrique, Jorge,_Poesía, ed. Jesús Manuel Alda Tesán, Letras Hispánicas 38 (Madrid: Cátedra, 1990) OR ed. Vicente Beltrán, Biblioteca Clásica (Barcelona: Crítica, 1993); ALSO in The Oxford and The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse.
- Domínguez, Frank, A., Love and Remembrance: The Poetry of Jorge Manrique (Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1988)
- Gilman, Stephen, 'Tres retratos de la muerte en las Coplas de Jorge Manrique', Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 13 (1959), 305-24.
Diego de San Pedro, Cárcel de amor
- Recommended edition: San Pedro, Diego de, Cárcel de amor in Cárcel de amor con la continuación de Nicolás Núñez, ed. Carmen Padilla, Biblioteca Clásica 17 (Barcelona: Crítica, 1995) OR Obras completas, II: Cárcel de amor, ed. Keith Whinnom, Clásicos Castalia 39 (Madrid: Castalia, 1985).
- Deyermond, A.D., A Literary History of Spain: The Middle Ages (London: Benn, 1971), pp. 12-14 (on courtly love); 164-5.
- Whinnom, Keith, Diego de San Pedro (New York: Twayne, 1974).
Lazarillo de Tormes
- Deyermond, A., Lazarillo de Tormes: A Critical Guide.
- Rico, F., La novela picaresca y el punto de vista.
Cervantes, El coloquio de los perros and El casamiento engañoso
- El Saffar, Ruth, Novel to Romance: A Study of Cervantes's "Novelas ejemplares"(1974)
- Forcione, Alban, Cervantes and the Mystery of Lawlessness (1984)
- Clamurro, Willian, Beneath the Fiction: The Contrary Worlds of Cervantes's "Novelas ejemplares" (1997)
SECTION B (Post 1800 Spain)
Pérez Galdós, La de Bringas
- Bly, Peter, La de Bringas: A Critical Guide, London, 1988
- Smith, Paul Julian, "La de Bringas: The Factor of Truth" in The Body Hispanic, Oxford, 1989, pp 75-87.
Unamuno, Niebla
- Paul R Olson Niebla Grant & Cutler Guides, London, 1984.
- Alison Sinclair, Uncovering the Mind: Unamuno, the Unknown and the Vicissitudes of Self. (Manchester University Press, 2001)
García Lorca, Romancero Gitano
- Recommended edition: Romancero gitano: edition by Madrid: Cátedra, by Allen Josephs and Juan Caballero (title is Poema del Cante Jondo; Romancero gitano), or edition by Herbert Ramsden, (Manchester University Hispanic Texts, 2008)
- Ramsden, Lorca's 'Romancero gitano': eighteen commentaries (Manchester University Hispanic Texts, 2008)
- Havard, Robert G. (tr.): "Gypsy Ballads (Romancero gitano)" Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1990. viii, 161 pp.. (Introd., 1-38; commentary, 127-161.) (Warminster: Hispanic Classics ).
Pedro Almodóvar, Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
- Allinson, Mark, A Spanish Labyrinth: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar, 2000
- Evans, Peter, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 1996
- Smith, Paul Julian, Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, 1994, 2000
SECTION C (Spanish-speaking America)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- See on-line resource on Sor Juana
- Recommended edition: Trueblood, Alan S., (trans), Juana Inés de la Cruz, A Sor Juana anthology with both Spanish and English versions, (Cambridge, Mass, and London, Harvard University Press, 1988).
- Paz, Octavio, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, o las trampas de la fe, Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1982, English version available at UL 743.31.c.95.116.
Rosario Castellanos, Meditación en el umbral
- Palley, J., Meditación en el Umbral: antología poética, Colección Popular 297, Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Econónomica, 1985.
- Ahern, M. (ed. and introduction), A Rosario Castellanos Reader, Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press, 1988.
García Márquez, Cien años de soledad
- Wood, M., García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude, CUP, 1990
- Bell, M., Gabriel García Márquez: Solitude and Solidarity, MacMillan, 1993, relevant chapters
- Fiddian, R., (ed), García Márquez, Longman, 1995
- McGuirk, B., and Cardwell, R. (eds), Gabriel García Márquez: New Readings
Vargas Llosa, La tía Julia y el escribidor
- Gerdes, D., relevant chapter in Mario Vargas Llosa, Twayne World Authors Series, 1985
- Williams, R., chapter in José Miguel Oviedo (ed), Mario Vargas Llosa, la invención de una realidad, Madrid, Taurus, 1982
SECTION D (Linguistics)
General Bibliography
- Azevedo, Milton M., 1992. Introducción a la lingüística española (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall).
- Pountain, Christopher J., 2003. Exploring the Spanish Language (London: Arnold).
- Hualde, José Ignacio, Antxon Olarrea & Anna María Escobar, 2001. Introducción a la lingüística hispánica (Cambridge: CUP).
- Steven Pinker The Language Instinct (Penguin)
Bibliography per lecture
Phonetics & Phonology
- Macpherson, Ian R., 1975. Spanish Phonology, descriptive and historical (Manchester UP)
- Navarro Tomás, N., 1961. Manual de pronunciación española (Madrid) MML:E3.F.3.
- Quilis, A. & Fernandez, J.A., 1969. Curso de fonética y fonología españolas (Madrid)
Morphology
- Kathleen Wheatley, 2006. Sintaxis y morfología de la lengua española (Pearson/Prentice Hall)
- Bosque, Ignacio 1982. “La morfología”, en F. Abad y A. García Berrio (coords.) Introducción a la lingüística (Madrid: Alhambra) pp. 115-153.
Syntax
- Lorenzo & Longa 1996. Introducción a la sintaxis generativa. La teoría de principios y parámetros en evolución (Madrid: Alianza).
- Real Academia Española, 1973. Esbozo de una nueva gramática de la lengua española (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe)
- Stockwell, R., Bowen, J. & Martin, J., 1965. The grammatical structures of English and Spanish
- Zagona, Karen 2002. The syntax of Spanish (Cambridge: CUP).
Varieties I and Varieties II
- Amastae, John & Elias-Olivares, Lucía (eds), 1982. Spanish in the United States: sociolinguistic aspects (Cambridge: UP).
- Alvar, Manuel (ed), 1996. Manual de dialectología hispánica: el español de España (Barcelona: Ariel)
- Zamora Vicente, A., 1979. Dialectología española (Madrid: Gredos).
- Lipski, John M., 1994. Latin American Spanish (London: Longman).
- Sephiha, Haim Vidal, 1986. Le judéo-espagnol (Paris: Editions Entente).
- Kouwenberg, Silvia & Eric Murray, 1994. Papiamentu (Munich: Lincom Europ)
