Part Ib Paper SP4: Modern Spanish Culture and History
Reading List
See also
This is the reading list for Part Ib Paper SP4 (Modern Spanish Culture and History). The paper consists of five set topics as follows:
- Spain in crisis, 1890-1923
- Prescription of gender
- The Art of Modernity
- The Post Civil War Novel and Franco’s Spain
- Images of Spain
Further information on each of these topics is given below.
Spain in crisis, 1890-1923
Background
Carr, Spain 1808-1939, chapters 9-13 inclusive
Brenan, The Spanish Labyrinth, chapters 1-4 on the political background, chapters 6-10 on the land question, the Anarchists, Socialists
A Shubert, A social history of modern Spain (1990) MML E9.D. 38
Primary texts
Unamuno, En torno al casticismo (1895)
Maeztu, Hacia otra España (1899)
Ganivet, Idearium español (1897)
Baroja, Aurora roja (1905)
Baroja, El árbol de la ciencia (1911)
Azorín, Castilla (1912)
Valle-Inclán, Luces de Bohemia (1921, 1924)
Ortega, España invertebrada (1921)
Machado, Campos de Castilla (1913)
There are essays by Baroja in his Obras completas: see especially ‘Barbarie y cultura’, ‘Divagaciones sobre la cultura’, ‘Europeización’, ‘El español no se entera’, ‘Patología del golfo’
Secondary reading
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1983)
Homi Bhabha (ed), Nation and Narration (1983)
Labanyi, J, 'Nation, Narration, Naturalization: A Barthesian Critique of the 1898 Generation', in New Hispanisms: Literature, Culture, Theory, ed. M. I. Millington, and Paul Julian Smith. Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions Canada, 127-149 (1994)
Max Nordau, Degeneration (1892). (1st Spanish edition 1902)
Ramsden, H, The 1898 generation in Spain. Manchester: Manchester University Press, (1974)
Azorín, essay on ’98 in Clásicos y modernos
Renan, ‘What is a nation?’, 1882, full text of this in Bhabha, Nation and Narration, 1990
Maristany, Luis (1968). ‘La concepción barojiana de la figura del golfo.’ Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 65 (1968), 102-122.
Prescriptions of gender
Primary texts
Pardo Bazán, Los pazos de Ulloa (1886)
Pardo Bazán, La madre naturaleza (1887)
Pardo Bazán, Un viaje de novios (1881)
Pérez Galdós, Tristana (1892)
García Lorca, Bodas de sangre (1933)
García Lorca, Yerma (1934)
García Lorca, La casa de Bernarda Alba (1936)
Laforet, Nada (1944)
Unamuno, La tía Tula (1920)
Martín Gaite, Entre visillos (1957)
Martín Gaite, Usos amorosos de la postguerra (1987)
Secondary reading
Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (1990)
Catherine Jagoe, et al, La mujer en los discursos de género (1998)
Maryellen Bieder, ‘Between gendre and gender: E. Pardo Bazán and Los pazos de Ulloa’ in Valis, N (ed) and Maier, In the Feminine Mode (Lewisberg 1990), 131-45.
Maryellen Bieder, ‘The Female Voice: Gender and Genre in La madre naturaleza’, Anales galdosianos 22, 1987, 103-116.
Elisabeth Bronfen. Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic (1992)
Lou Charnon-Deutsch, Gender and Representation: Women in Spanish Realist Fiction (1990)
Lou Charnon-Deutsch, Narratives of Desire (1994).
Peristiany (ed) Honour and Shame in the Mediterranean, esp. the essays by Pitt-Rivers, and J Caro Baroja (copy of this in MML photocopies)
Pitt-Rivers, The People of the Sierra (1954), esp. ch 4, ‘El ceremonial de los sexos’ and ch 5, ‘El laberinto de la honra’
Alison Sinclair, The Deceived Husband (1993), ch 4, ‘Men of Honour’.
Bridget Aldaraca, El Ángel del hogar: Galdós and the ideology of domesticity in Spain. (1991)
Mujer, familia y trabajo en España (1875-1936) ed. Mary Nash, (1983)
Mandrell, James Don Juan and the Point of Honor: Seduction, Patriarchal Society, and Literary Tradition. (1992).
Catherine Jagoe, Ambiguous Angels (1994)
Sanchez Perez, La liturgia del espacio (Madrid 1990), esp. ch 4, ‘El ceremonial de los sexos’, and ch 5, ‘El laberinto de la honra’
See also, under PW novel, items by Victoria Lorée Enders and Pamela Beth Radcliff, Jordan and Andrews.
The Art of Modernity
Primary texts
Valle-Inclán, Sonatas: Sonata de otoño (1902); Sonata de estío (1903); Sonata de primavera (1904); Sonata de invierno (1905)
Valle-Inclán, Tirano Banderas (1926)
Miró, La novela de mi amigo(1908)
Miró, Las cerezas del cementerio (1910)
Ortega y Gasset, La deshumanización del arte (1925)
Ortega y Gasset, Ideas sobre la novela (1925)
Unamuno, Niebla (1914)
Unamuno, Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo (1920)
Unamuno, Cómo se hace una novela (1927)
Juan Ramón Jiménez, Segunda antolojía (1916-)
Guillén, Cántico (1926-)
Salinas, Seguro azar (1929)
Salinas, La voz a ti debida (1933)
Aleixandre, Ámbito (1924-7)
García Lorca, Libro de Canciones (1922), Libro del Cante Jondo (1922), Romancero gitano (1928)
Alberti, Marinero en tierra (1924), La amante (1926), El alba del alhelí (1927), Sobre los ángeles (1929)
Machado, ‘La tierra de Alvargonzález’ (in Campos de Castilla)
Lorca’s essays (these can all be found in Obras completas): ‘Teoría y juego del duende’ (1930); ‘El cante jondo: primitivo canto andaluz’, 1922, for Concurso del Cante jondo; ‘Arquitectura del cante jondo’, 1931, (largely the same lecture)
Secondary reading
Bradbury and McFarlane, Modernism 1890-1930 (1976)
David Lodge, ‘Modernism, Antimodernism and Postmodernism’, in Lodge, Working with Structuralism (1981)
Hutchinson, P., Games Authors Play (1984)
¿Qué es el modernismo?: nueva encuesta, nuevas lecturas, Richard A. Cardwell y Bernard McGuirk, editores, Boulder, Colo.: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, c1993 (esp. the essay by Butt on ‘modernity’ and ‘modernismo’
I. MacDonald, Gabriel Miró: his private library and his literary background (London: Tamesis, 1975)
Dianella Gambini, ‘Tipología femenina fin-de-siècle en las Sonatas de Valle-Inclán’ in John P. Gabriele (ed), Suma valleinclaniana. (in MML photocopies)
Lily Litvak, on Modernismo
Noel Valis, ‘La novela como trampa femenina: Sonata de otoño de Valle-Inclán’, in Gabriele, (ed), Suma valleinclaniana. (in MML photocopies)
Leon Livingstone, ‘Ortega y Gasset’s Philosophy of Art’, Publications of the Modern Languages Association 67 (Sept 1952) 609-654 (in MML photocopies) - this is long but excellent
Wyers, Frances (1990). ‘Unamuno and “The Death of the Author”’, Hispanic Review 58 (1990), 325-346.
Summerhill, Stephen (1992). ‘Theory and Practice of the Novel in Unamuno: the Case of Dos madres’. Revista Hispánica Moderna 45 (1992), 15-36
Sinclair, A. (2001). Uncovering the Mind: Unamuno, the Unknown and the Vicissitudes of Self. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Cernuda,“Poesía popular”, in Poesía y literatura (1961)
Timothy Mitchell, Pasional Culture: Emotion, Religion and Society in Southern Spain (1990)
Timothy Mitchell, Flamenco Deep Song (1994)
William Washabaugh, Flamenco: Passion, Politics and Popular Culture (1996)
Edward Stanton, The Tragic Myth: Lorca and “Cante jondo” (1978)
Gareth Walters, Cambridge Introduction to Spanish poetry (CUP, 2002)
Gareth Walters, Canciones and the early poetry of Lorca (Univ. of Wales, 2002).
The Post Civil War Novel and Franco’s Spain
Primary texts
Cela, La familia de Pascual Duarte (1942)Cela, La colmena (1951)
Laforet, Nada (1945)
Sánchez Ferlosio, El Jarama (1946)
Goytisolo, Señas de identidad (1966)
Martín Santos, Tiempo de silencio (1961)
Marsé, Últimas tardes con Teresa (1966)
Marsé, Si te dicen que caí (1973)
Secondary reading
Paul Preston, Spain in Crisis (1976)
Paul Preston, Franco (1993)
Martín Gaite, Usos amorosos de la postguerra española (1987)
Labanyi, J, Myth and History in the Contemporary Spanish Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1989)
Helen Graham and Jo Labanyi, Spanish Cultural Studies: an Introduction, OUP 1995
Mike Richards, Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco’s Spain 1936-1945 (1998)
Victoria Lorée Enders and Pamela Beth Radcliff (eds), Constructing Spanish Womanhood: Female Identity in Modern Spain (1999)[also for prescriptions of gender]
Gareth Thomas, The Novel of the Spanish Civil War (1991)
Stephen Hart, "¡No pasaran!": Art, Literaturea and the Spanish Civil War (1988)
Carmen Martín Gaite, ‘La chica rara’, in Desde la ventana (1987)
Barry Jordan, ‘Looks that kill: Power, Gender and Vision in Laforet’s Nada’, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (1992) 17, 79-104.
Jean Andrews, ‘Jane Austen’s Little ‘Inch of Ivory’ and Carmen Laforet’s Nada, What Else Could a Woman Write About?’ in Catherine Davies (ed.) Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Spain and Spanish America (1993)
Robin Fiddian and Peter Evans, ‘Tiempo de silencio: “Los españoles pintados por sí mismos”’, in id., Challenges to Authority: Fiction and Film in Contemporary Spain, London: Tamesis 1988. 30-46
J. Lyon, ‘Don Pedro’s complicity: an existential dimension of Tiempo de silencio’, Modern Language Review, 74, 1979.
F. García Sarriá, ‘El Jarama: Muerte y merienda de Lucita’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 53, 323-37.
Spires, ‘El papel del lector implícito en la novela española de posguerra’, Revista Hispánica Moderna 38 (3), 94-102 (on Pascual Duarte, El jarama, Tiempo de silencio).
A. Yates, ‘The first person narrative mode in Pascual Duarte and Nada’, Vida Hispánica 24 (3), 11-20.
Dru Dougherty, ‘Pascual Duarte en la cárcel: el relato encubierto de Pascual Duarte’, Insula 365, 5, 7.
Jo Evans, ‘La familia de Pascual Duarte and the Search for Gendered Identity’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 1994 (2), 197-216.
Images of Spain
There are no set texts on the curriculum but the following are films which will form the basis of an introduction to Spanish cinema and society of the last half century. Copies of the films are available in the MML Faculty Library. Many of the nineteenth century painters’ works are available for viewing on the Internet.
The Civil War
Land and Freedom (Loach)
Libertarias (Aranda)
Las bicicletas son para el verano (Fernán Gómez)
¡Ay, Carmela! (Saura)
Official Cinema of the Dictatorship
Los derechos de la mujer (Sáenz de Heredia)
Raza (Sáenz de Heredia)
Recluta con niño (Ramírez)
Las 4 bodas de Marisol (Lucía)
Cinema of Resistance
Bienvenido Mr Marshall (Berlanga)
Calle mayor (Bardem)
La caza (Saura)
La vaquilla (Berlanga)
Post-Franco Cinema
Matador (Almodóvar)
Jamón, Jamón (Bigas Luna)
Vacas (Medem)
La ardilla roja (Medem)
Painters
Francisco de Goya
Mariano Fortuny
Joaquín Sorolla
Selected reading
P. Evans, Spanish Cinema: the Auteurist Tradition (1999)P. Fiddian and P. Evans, Challenges to Authority: Fiction and Film in Contemporary Spain (1988)
J. Hopewell, Out of the Past: Spanish Cinema after Franco (1986)
M. Kinder, Blood Cinema: Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain (1993)
P. J. Smith, Desire Unlimited: the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar (1994).
Barry Jordan, Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas, Contemporary Spanish Cinema (1998)
Nuria Triana-Toribio, Spanish National Cinema (2004)
Nancy Berthier, Le franquisme et son image. Cinéma et propagande (1998)
Nancy Berthier, De la guerre à l’écran: ¡Ay, Carmela! de Carlos Saura (2005)
M. Crusells, La guerra civil española: cine y propaganda. Barcelona. Ariel (2003)
A. Jaime, Litertura y cine en España. Madrid. Cátedra (2000)
C. Dominguez, 'Mujeres y revolución en tres películas españolas de los noventa.' International Journal of Iberian Studies, vol 19, num 3, 2006, pp 169-186.