| Module Identifier |
SP20410 |
| Module Title |
THE GENERATION OF 1898 |
| Academic Year |
2002/2003 |
| Co-ordinator |
Professor Robert G Havard |
| Semester |
Semester 1 |
| Other staff |
Dr Rob Stone |
| Course delivery |
Lecture | 11 Hours |
| |
Seminars / Tutorials | 4 Hours (2 seminars; 2 tutorials) |
Learning outcomes
Students will have a good awareness of the sociopolitical issues and problems that beset Spain at the turn of the century and will be familiar with responses to this in the work of three major writers. They will have developed their linguistic and literary skills.
Brief description
The module deals with Spanish society and politics at the end of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century; the corruption of 'el turno pacifico', the defeat by the United States in the Cuban War, the consequent 'prolema de Espana' and the concern for the regeneration of Spain. Students read selected texts that illustrate this key phase in modern Spanish history and thought. [This module is especially recommended for students who were Beginners at Level 1.]
Syllabus:
weeks 1-2 Spain at the turn of the century and the 98 Generation
weeks 3-4 Pio Baroja, 'El arbol de la ciencia'
weeks 5-8 Antonio Machado, 'Campos de Castilla'
weeks 9-12 Miguel de Unamuno, 'Niebla'
Reading Lists
Books
** Should Be Purchased
Baroja, Pio.
El arbol de la ciencia. Alianza
Machado, Antonio.
Campos de Castilla, edited by Robert Havard, Duckworth, Bristol Classical Press. or in Machado's 'Poesias completas', Austral
Unamuno, Miguel de.
Niebla. Taurus or other edition
** Recommended Consultation
Carr, Raymond. (1985)
Modern Spain 1875-1980. Oxford
** Recommended Background
Granjel, L. G.. (1960)
Baroja y otras figuras del 98. Madrid
Vazquez, F. B.
El pensamiento social y politico de P. Baroja. Salamanca
Moral, Carmen del. (1974)
La sociedad madrilena fin de siglo y Baroja. Madrid
Ciplijauskaite, B. (1972)
Pio Baroja, un estilo. Madrid
Fox, E. Inman.
'Baroja y Schopenhauer: El arbol de la cienca', Revue de la Litterature Comparee, 1962: 350-9.
Shaw, D. L..
'The Concept of ataraxia in the Later Novels of Baroja' , Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 1957: 29-35. And 'Two Novels of Pio Baroja' BHS, 1963.
Flint, W. Baroja, N. P.. (1983)
Camino de perfeccion, citical guide.
Patt, B. P.. (1971)
Pio Baroja. Twayne, new York
Baeza, Fernando (ed). (1962)
Baroja y su mundo. Madrid
Terry, Arthur. (1973)
A. Machado: Campos de Castilla. critical guide, London
Sese, Bernard. (1980)
Antonio Machado 1875-1939. Madrid
Sanchez, Barbudo A. (1959)
Estudios sobre A. Machado. Madrid
Sanchez, Barbudo A. (1974)
Pensamiento de Antonio Machado. Mardid
Gullon, Ricardo, Allen W. Phillips & Claudio Guillen. (1971)
Literature as System. Chapter on" Poema de un dia', Princeton
Aguirre, J. M.. (1961)
Antonio Machado, poeta simbolista. Madrid
Havard, Robert. (1997)
Antonio Machado: Campos de Castilla. Duckworth, Bristol Classical Press (see Bibliography for further reading)
Nozick, M. (1997)
Miguel de Unamuno. Twayne, New York (especially chapter 5)
Olson, Paul R. (1984)
Unamuno: Niebla. Critical Guides to spanish Texts, Grant & Cutler, London