| Module Identifier |
SPM0630 |
| Module Title |
SPANISH ROMANTICISM |
| Academic Year |
2006/2007 |
| Co-ordinator |
To Be Arranged |
| Semester |
Intended for use in future years |
| Next year offered |
N/A |
| Next semester offered |
N/A |
| Course delivery |
Lecture | 24 Hours. |
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Students will have a good grasp of what went into the flowering of Romanticism in Spain, with a grounding in the events and works of the period of the Peninsular War and a closer study of the more significant achioevements by major poets later in the nineteenth century.
Aims
After charting the emergence of a Romantic sensibility in Spain (Cadalso, Goya, Melendez, Quintana), the module focuses on
the movement's brief success in Espronceda (Rivas and Larra) and its more meaningful if belated triumphs in Becquer and
Rosalia.
Jose de Espronceda, Poesias completas; Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Rimas y leyendas; Rosalia de Castro, En las orillas del Sar.
Reading Lists
Books
Azorin (Martinez Ruiz) (1916) Rivas y Larra
Madrid
Benitez, Ruben ed. (1979) Mariano Jose de Larra (El escritor y la critica)
Madrid
Bousono C (1963) 'Los conjuntos paralelisticos de Becquer' in Seis calas en la expresion literaria espanola
Madrid - 179-218
Caravaca Francisco 'Las ideas de Larra sobre la satira y los satiricos', - Quaderni Ibero-Americani, IX (1066), 4-25
Casalduero Joaquin (1983) Espronceda
Madrid
Costa Clavel, Javier (1967) Rosalia de Castro
Barcelona
Davies, Catherine (1987) Rosalia de CAstro no seu tempo,
Vigo
Davies, Catherine (1984) Rosalia de Castro's Late Poetry
Modern Language Review
Diaz J P (1958) Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
Vida y poesai, Madrid
Gil I - M (1970) Dualismo y estructuras bimembres en la poesia de G A Becquer,
Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos - 248-9, 350-9
Havard Robert (1974) 'Image and Perona in Rosalia de Castro's En las orillas del Sar,
Hispanic Review
Havard Robert (1988) From Romanticism to Surrealism. Seven Spanish Poets - includes studies of Becquer and Rosalia de Castro
Cardiff
Heldman Edith (1963) Trasmundo de Goya
Madrid
Klingender F D (1968) Goya in the Democratic Tradition
London
Kulp-Hill Kathleen (1977) Rosalisa de Castro
Boston
Machado da Rosa A (1954) 'Rosalia de Castro, poeta incompreendido'
Revista Hispanica Moderna
Mayoral Marina (1974) La poesia de Rosalia de Castro
Madrid
Peers E A A History of the Romantic Movement in Spain, 2 vols
Rees Magaret A (1979) Espronceda: El estudiante de Salamanca,
London
Shaw D L 'Larra' in A Literary History of Spain, above
Shaw D L (1963) 'Towards the Understanding of Spanish Romanticism
MLR, 58
Shaw D L (1972) A Literary History of Spain: The Nineteenth Century
london
Stevens Shelley (1986) Rosalia de Castro and the Galicia Revival
London
Tirrel P (1955) La mistica de la saudade
Madrid
Varela Jose Luis (1983) Larra y Espana
Madrid
William Gwyn A (1976) Goya and the Impossible Revolution
London
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7