You are strongly encouraged to read as many texts as possible from the reading list over the summer vacation. As a minimum you should have read, by the timeyou arrive in ϲʿ¼: Lazarillo de Tormes, García Lorca's Romancero Gitanoand Stephen Pinker's The Language Instinct. You may also be interested to watch the film También la lluvia.
Where the Department recommends a specific edition or editions, details are given in the reading list below. If no edition is mentioned, please buy the latest one.
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SECTION A - THE PRE-MODERN CONDITION
Medieval:Diego de San Pedro,Cárcel de amor
- Recommended edition: San Pedro, Diego de,Cárcel de amorinCárcel de amor con la continuación de Nicolás Núñez, ed. Carmen Padilla, Biblioteca Clásica 17 (Barcelona: Crítica, 1995) ORObras 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).
Renaissance: Anon.,Lazarillo de Tormes
- Recommended edition:Lazarillo de Tormes, ed. Francisco Rico (Madrid: Cátedra, 1987)
- Deyermond, A.,Lazarillo de Tormes:A Critical Guide.
- Rico, F.,La novela picaresca y el punto de vista.
The Baroque:Sor JuanaInésde la Cruz
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- Recommended edition:Trueblood, Alan S., (trans), JuanaInésde la Cruz, A Sor Juana anthology with both Spanish and English versions, (ϲʿ¼, Mass, and London, Harvard University Press, 1988).
- Paz,Octavio,Sor JuanaInésdela Cruz, o lastrampasde la fe, Mexico,FondodeCulturaEconómica, 1982, English version available at UL 743.31.c.95.116.
SECTION B - THE CONSOLIDATION OF MODERNITY
Enlightenment:José Cadalso,Cartas marruecas
Recommendededition:José Cadalso, Cartas marruecas, ed. Russell Sebold, Cátedra, Letras Hispánicas
- Michael P Iarocci, Properties of modernity: romantic Spain, modern Europe, and the legacies of empire (Vandebilt University Press, 2006)
- Edward Said, Orientalism (Routledge, 1978)
Romanticism:JorgeIsaacs,Ѳí
- Recommended edition:JorgeIsaacs,Ѳí, ed. DonaldMcGrady,Cátedra,LetrasHispánicas
- Arciniegas,Germán,Genioyfigurade JorgeIsaacs, BA, EditorialUniversitariade Buenos Aires, 1967
- Benítez-Rojo, Antonio, ‘The nineteenth-century Spanish American novel’, inThe ϲʿ¼ History of Latin American Literature, vol. 1, ϲʿ¼ University Press
- McGrady, Donald,JorgeIsaacs, New York:Twayne, 1972
- Sommer, Doris,Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America, chapter 6, University of California Press
Realism:Emilia Pardo Bazán,Cuentos(a selection):"Un matrimonio del siglo XIX" (1866);"El indulto" (1883);"El encaje roto" (1897);"Las medias rojas" (1914).
Recommendededition: No single edition of any compilation of Cuentos includes all four of these texts, butall of thesestoriesare very easily accessibleonline.TheTaurus edition by Juan Paredes Núñez (1988) features a very useful introduction (in Spanish).
- Bieder, Maryellen. “Picturing the Author: The Private Woman Meets the Public Gaze.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 39.2 (2005): 301-318.
- ---. “Plotting Gender/Replotting the Reader: Strategies of Subversion in Stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán.” Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures 2 (1993): 137-57.
- Gasior, Bonnie L. “The Economy of the Feminine in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s ‘Las medias rojas.’” Hispania 90.4 (2007): 747-754.
- McKenna, Susan. “Recalcitrant Endings in the Short Stories of Emilia Pardo Bazán.” Letras Peninsulares 11 (1998): 637-56.
- Ojea Fernández, Ѳí Elena. “Narrativa feminist en los cuentos de la condesa Pardo Bazán.” Epos 16 (2000): 157-176.
- Pérez, Janet. “Subversion of Victorian Values and Ideal Types: Pardo Bazán and the ángel del hogar.” ᾱ貹óھ 113 (1995): 31-44.
- Sherzer, William. “Writing as a Woman or Writing as a Man? The Shifting Perspective Toward Women in Three Short Stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán.” Letras Peninsulares 14.2 (2001): 195-206.
- Tolliver, Joyce. Cigar Smoke and Violet Water: Gendered Discourse in the Stories of Emilia Pardo Bazán. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1998.
SECTION C- MODERNISM AND BEYOND
The avant-garde:García Lorca,Romancero Gitano
- Recommended edition:Romancero gitano: edition by Madrid: Cátedra, by Allen Josephs and Juan Caballero (title isPoema 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 ).
The twentieth-century Novel: Marta Aponte,La muerte feliz de William Carlos Williams
- Villegas, Carmen M. Rivera. "'La Loca de La Casa' de Marta AponteAlsina: Reinvenciones Románticasde Un Canon Fundacional."Confluencia23, no. 1 (2007): 62-71.https://www.jstor.org/stable/27923253?searchText=marta+aponte+alsina&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dmarta%2Baponte%2Balsina&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A06f9d48ee79d9746a8f77fdf942e44cb
- Figueroa, Beatriz Llenín. "'Armar una literatura de conexiones' en nuestra 'Patria líquida': el contextocaribeño de la ensayísticade Marta Aponte Alsina."Carribean Studies44, no.1/2 (2016): 29-45.
- Dossier sobre Marta Aponte Alsina enEl Roommate:https://elroommate.com/dossier-marta-aponte-alsina/
- Entrevista a Marta Aponte Alsina por Julio Ramos.https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5837/583763720016/583763720016.pdf
Contemporary Cinema:IcíarBollaín (dir.), También la lluvia (film, 2010)
- Arteaga, Claudia. ‘Repensando la resistencia popular en la Bolivia contemporánea (También la lluvia, de Icíar Bollaín)’, Crítica Latinoamericana (2013), at http://criticalatinoamericana.com/repensando-la-resistencia-popular-en-la-bolivia-contemporanea-resena-de-la-pelicula-tambien-la-lluvia/
- Cilento, Fabrizio. ‘Even the Rain: A Confluence of Cinematic and Historical Temporalities’, in Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, vol. 16 (2012), 245-58.http://fabriziocilento.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Even-the-Rain.pdf
- Marí, Jorge. También la lluvia (review), in Hispania, vol. 95, no. 2 (June 2012), 369-71.http://www.jstor.org/stable/23266233
- Paszkiewicz, Katarzyna. ‘Del cine épico al cine social: el universo metafílmico en También la lluvia (2010) de Icíar Bollaín’, in Lectora, vol. 18 (2012), 227-40.http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/lectora/article/view/7264/9168
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 Ѳí Escobar, 2001. Introducción a la lingüística hispánica (ϲʿ¼: CUP).
- Steven Pinker The Language Instinct (Penguin)
- 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 (ϲʿ¼: CUP).
Varieties I and Varieties II
- Amastae, John & Elias-Olivares, Lucía (eds), 1982. Spanish in the United States: sociolinguistic aspects (ϲʿ¼: 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)