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 time you arrive in Cambridge: Lazarillo de Tormes, García Lorca's Romancero Gitano and 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 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).
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 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.
SECTION B - THE CONSOLIDATION OF MODERNITY
Enlightenment: José Cadalso, Cartas marruecas
Recommended edition: 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: Jorge Isaacs, María
- Recommended edition: Jorge Isaacs, María, ed. Donald McGrady, Cátedra, Letras Hispánicas
- Arciniegas, Germán, Genio y figura de Jorge Isaacs, BA, Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1967
- Benítez-Rojo, Antonio, ‘The nineteenth-century Spanish American novel’, in The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature, vol. 1, Cambridge University Press
- McGrady, Donald, Jorge Isaacs, 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).
Recommended edition: No single edition of any compilation of Cuentos includes all four of these texts, but all of these stories are very easily accessible online. The Taurus 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, María 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.” Hispanófila 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 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 ).
The twentieth-century Novel: Marta Aponte, La muerte feliz de William Carlos Williams
- Villegas, Carmen M. Rivera. "'La Loca de La Casa' de Marta Aponte Alsina: Reinvenciones Románticas de Un Canon Fundacional." Confluencia 23, 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 contexto caribeño de la ensayística de Marta Aponte Alsina." Carribean Studies 44, no.1/2 (2016): 29-45. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44364461?searchText=marta+aponte+alsina&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dmarta%2Baponte%2Balsina&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3A06f9d48ee79d9746a8f77fdf942e44cb
- Dossier sobre Marta Aponte Alsina en El 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: Icíar Bollaín (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 María Escobar, 2001. Introducción a la lingüística hispánica (Cambridge: 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 (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)