Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Paper Sp 9

Spanish Literature, Thought, and History, after 1820

Recommended reading

Please note that all sections have 'Suggested texts.' This is not a list of set texts, and there are others that you can include: please consult your supervisor, and the convenor of the paper. The expectation is that you will receive up to three supervisions on a topic, allowing you to pursue broad coverage, but there is nothing to prevent you having fewer supervisions on more topics if you so prefer. You will see that some authors appear in more than one section, but with different texts. You should avoid, nonetheless, preparing to answer on the same author in more than one section.

Nature and Culture

Primary Texts

• Pardo Bazán, Los pazos de Ulloa, La madre naturaleza
• Galdós, La desheredada (1881), Miau (1888), Fortunata y Jacinta (1884-6), Angel Guerra (1890-91)
• Alas, La Regenta (1884-5)
• Benet, Volverás a Región (1968)
• Martín-Santos, Tiempo de silencio (1961)

Secondary texts

• Jo Labanyi, Gender and Modernisation in the Spanish Realist Novel (2000)
• Culture and Gender in 19c Spain, ed. Lou Charnon-Deutsch and Jo Labanyi (1993)
• Max Nordau, Degeneration (1893)
• Catherine Jagoe et al, La mujer en los discursos de género (anthology of texts on women and education, medicine, the law, sexuality etc) (1998)
• Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (1990)
• Gallagher and Laqueur (eds), The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century (1987)
• Daniel Pick, Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c. 1848-c. 1918 (1989)
• Tony Tanner, Adultery in the novel (1979)
• Alison Sinclair, The Deceived Husband (1993)
• Noel Valis, Culture of cursilería: bad taste, kitsch, and class in modern Spain (2002)
• Adrian Shubert, A social history of modern Spain (1990)
• Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger (1996)
• Michie, Helena The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's Bodies, (1989)
• Labanyi, Jo, Tiempo e ironía en 'Tiempo de silencio' (1985)

Experiments in Form

Primary texts

• Corbalán, Poesía surrealista en España; antología, reportaje y notas (1974)
• Alberti, Sobre los ángeles
• Buñuel/Dalí, Perro andaluz
• Cernuda, Un río un amor, La realidad y el deseo
• Lorca, Poeta en Nueva York (1931), Así que pasen cinco años
• Valle-Inclán, La media noche (1917), La lámpara maravillosa (1913), Sonata de otoño (1902), Sonata de estío (1903), invierno (1905), Tirano Banderas (1926)
• Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Greguerías, Cinelandia, 'Las cosas y el ello', 'Ensayo sobre lo cursi', La Quinta de Palmyra
• Unamuno, Cómo se hace una novela (1927), Niebla (1914), Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo (1920)
• Ortega y Gasset, La deshumanización del arte (1925)
• Ortega y Gasset, Ideas sobre la novela (1925)
• Vanguardistas españoles (1925-1935) / selección y comentarios de Ramón Buckley y John Crispin (1973)
• Paul Ilie, Documents of the Spanish Vanguard (1969)

Secondary texts

• Derek Harris (ed), The Spanish Avant Garde (1995)
• Robert Spires, Beyond the metafictional mode: directions in the modern Spanish novel (1984)
• Bradbury and McFarlane, Modernism 1890-1930 (1976)
• Louis Sass, Madness and Modernism (1992)
• David Lodge, 'Modernism, Antimodernism and Postmodernism;, Working with Structuralism (1981)
• Rockwell Gray, The imperative of modernity: an intellectual biography of J. Ortega y Gasset (Berkeley 1989)
• Andrew Dobson, An introduction to the politics and philosophy of J. Ortega y Gasset (CUP 1989)
• Leon Livingstone, 'Ortega y Gasset's Philosophy of Art', Publications of the Modern Languages Association 67 (Sept 1952) 609-654
• Noel Valis, 'Two Ramóns: A view from the Margins of Modernist Cursilería', Anales de la literatura española contemporánea 17 (1992) 325-345
• Studies on Ramón Gómez de la Serna ed. Nigel Dennis, Ottawa Hispanic Studies 1988, including: Manuel Durán, 'Origen y función de la greguería' and C. Brian Morris, 'Cinelandia: Ramón in Shadowland'
• Dianella Gambini, 'Tipología femenina fin-de-siècle en las Sonatas de Valle-Inclán' in John P. Gabriele (ed), Suma valleinclaniana.
• Lily Litvak, on Modernismo
• Noel Valis, 'La novela como trampa femenina: Sonata de otoño de Valle-Inclán', in Gabriele, (ed), Suma valleinclaniana.
• Brad Epps, Significant violence : oppression and resistance in the narratives of Juan Goytisolo, 1970-1990 (1996)
• Gould Levine, Juan Goytisolo: la destrucción creadora (1976)
• Lee Six, Juan Goytisolo: the case for chaos (1990)

Writing Memory

Primary texts

• Unamuno, En torno al casticismo
• Machado, Campos de Castilla
• Marsé, Si te dicen que caí
• Neruda, Tercera residencia
• Cela, San Camilo 1936, La colmena
• Goytisolo, Coto vedado, En los reinos de Taifa
(vol 2)

Films

• Buñuel, Tierra sin pan
• Guerin, En construcción
• Balagué, La casita blanca: la ciudad oculta
• Medem, La pelota vasca

Secondary texts

• Freud, Mourning and Melancholia (1917), in The Pelican Freud Library, 11; On Metapsychology: The Theory of Psychoanalysis (London: Penguin, 1984)
• Herzberger, David, Narrating the past: fiction and historiography in postwar Spain (1995)
• Labanyi, Jo, (ed) Construction identity in contemporary Spain: theoretical debates and cultural practice (1995)
• Labanyi, Jo, Myth and History in the Contemporary Spanish Novel, (1989)
• Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of nationalism. London: Verso, 1983.
• Loureiro, Angel G., The ethics of autobiography: replacing the subject in modern Spain (1999)
• Labanyi, Jo. 'Nation, Narration, Naturalization: A Barthesian Critique of the 1898 Generation', in New Hispanisms: Literature, Culture, Theory, ed.. Mark I. Millington, and Paul Julian Smith (1994) 127-149 (photocopy in the MML Library)
• Labanyi, Jo, 'Cultures of remembrance', Journal of Spanish cultural Studies (2003) (3:1)
• Bhabha, Homi K., ed. Nation and Narration. London and New York: Routledge, 1990; rpt 1993.
• Renan, 'What is a nation?', 1882, full text in Bhabha, ed., Nation and Narration.
• Herzberger, David, The novelistic world of Juan Benet (1976)
• Epps, Brad, Significant violence: oppression and resistance in the narratives of Juan Goytisolo, 1970-1990 (1996)
• Levine, Linda Gould, Juan Goytisolo: la destrucción creadora (1976)
• Bill Nichols, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary (1984)

Staging Issues

Primary texts

• Lorca, Bodas de sangre, Yerma, La casa de Bernarda Alba, El público, Doña Rosita la soltera
• Valle-Inclán, Luces de Bohemia, Los cuernos de don Friolera, Divinas palabras
• Films of Lorca: La casa de Bernarda Alba, dir. Mario Camus
• Buñuel, Tristana, Viridiana, Nazarín
• Films: Almodóvar, Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?; Tacones lejanos
• Bigas Luna, Jamón, jamón
• Medem, Lucía y el sexo
• Amenábar, Abre los ojos
• Berlanga, Bienvenido Mr Marshall
• Guerin, En construcción

Secondary texts

• Gordon Craig, On the art of the theatre (1911)
• Dougherty, D., La escena madrileña entre 1918 y 1926 (Madrid 1990)
• Dru Dougherty, Un Valle-Inclán olvidado (Madrid 1982) - contains numerous interviews, statements, of artistic and/or political interest. On VI the political man, see Dougherty, Valle-Inclán y la segunda república.
• Lyon, John, The theatre of Valle-Inclán (1983)
• J. Urrutia, 'Sobre el carácter cinematográfico del teatro de VI (Divinas palabras)' Insula 1987
• Smith, Paul Julian, The body Hispanic: gender and sexuality in Spanish and Spanish American literature (1989)
• Smith, Paul Julian, The theatre of García Lorca: text, performance, psychoanalysis (1998)
• Triana, Nuria, Spanish National Cinema (2004)
• Barry Jordan and Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas, Contemporary Spanish cinema (1998)
• Rob Stone, Spanish Cinema (2002)

Between Women

Primary texts

• Martín Gaite, Nubosidad variable (1992), Desde la ventana: enfoque femenino de la literatura española (1987), Usos amorosos de la postguerra española (1987)
• Tusquets, El mismo mar de todos los veranos (1978), El amor es un juego solitario (1979), Varada tras el último naufragio (1980)
• Madres e hijas (anthology ed by Laura Freixas, 1996)
• Unamuno, La tía Tula (1920), Tres novelas ejemplares y un prólogo (1920)
• Pardo Bazán, Dulce dueño (1911)
• Rosa Regás, La canción de Dorotea (2001)
• Almudena Grandes, Modelos de mujer (1996), Las edades de Lulú (1989)
• Lucía Etxebarria, Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas (1996), Beatriz y los cuerpos celestes (1998), Nosotras que no somos como las demás (1999); with Sonia Nuñez Puentes, La Eva futura, La letra futura (2000), En brazos de la mujer fetiche (2002) (re-reads canonical 19c texts with reference to objectification of women)

Secondary texts

• Benjamin, Jessica, The bonds of love: psychoanalysis, feminism and the problem of domination (1988)
• Chodorow, Nancy, The reproduction of mothering: psychoanalysis and the sociology of gender (1978; with new preface, 1999)
• Chodorow, Nancy, Femininities, masculinities, sexualities : Freud and beyond (1994)
• Kristeva Reader, ed by Toril Moi, 1986 (includes the essay �Stabat Mater�)
• Kristeva, Julia, Powers of horror: an essay on abjection (1982)
• Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Thinking Gender. London and New York: Routledge, 1990. (For theory and issues of performativity in gender.)
• Hart, Stephen M, The Other Scene: Psychoanalytic Readings in Modern Spanish and Latin-American Literature 1991
• Kaplan, Louise, Female Perversions (1993)
• Chasseguet-Smirguel, Janine, Creativity and Perversion (1985)
• Molinari, Nina L. Foucault, Feminism, and Power: Reading Esther Tusquets(1991)
• Smith, Paul Julian. "The Lesbian Body in Tusquetís Trilogy", Laws of Desire: Questions of Homosexuality in Spanish Writing and Film 1960-1990 (1992) 91-128
• Vásquez, Mary S., ed. The Sea of Becoming: Approaches to the Fiction of Esther Tusquets c1991.
• Hart, Stephen M. �Fairy Tales�, Chapter III of White Ink: Essays on Twentieth-Century Feminine Fiction in Spain and Latin America (1993), 63-87.
• Charnon-Deutsch, Narratives of desire: nineteenth-century Spanish fiction by women (esp. Ch 1, in MML photocopies) (1994)