The first term introduces students to the main literary genres and trends of the Middle Ages and the Golden Age in Spain through a study of representative works from both periods. The second term covers the period from 1700 to the present day, concentrating principally on 19th-century Realism, the Generations of 1898 and 1927, writers of the Civil War and immediate post-war period, as well as contemporary authors.
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Prerequisite: At least Spanish 200 or 205
SPANISH 356a
Term I. September-December 2001
SCHEDULE
Week Topic
September 5-7 Introduction to the Course
Introduction to the History of the Spanish Language and to Medieval Spain.
September 10-14 Early lyric poetry -- the jarchas.
The mester de juglaría -- Poema de mio Cid.
September 17-21 Poema de mio Cid. (Video available)
The mester de clerecía .
Early prose narrative -- Calila y Dimna , Sendebar
September 24-28 Sendebar
Disciplina Clericalis
October 1-5 Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita, Libro de buen amor.
Don Juan Manuel, El Conde Lucanor.
October 8 THANKSGIVING DAY - No classes
October 10-12 Sem Tov, Proverbios morales
La Celestina
October 15-19 La Celestina (Video available)
Diego de San Pedro -- Cárcel de amor
October 22 MID-TERM EXAM
October 24-26 Introduction to the Golden Age.
The Golden Age Theater -- Lope de Vega, Fuenteovejuna. (Video available)
October 29 Lope de Vega, Fuenteovejuna
October 31 Calderón, La vida es sueño ESSAY # 1 DUE
November 2 Calderón, La vida es sueño
November 5 The novel: Lazarillo de Tormes
November 7 Quevedo, El Buscón
November 9 Cervantes, Don Quijote -- selections
November 12 HOLIDAY IN LIEU OF REMEMBRANCE DAY -- No classes
November 14-16 Cervantes, Don Quijote -- selections.
November 19-21 Poetry of the Golden Age: selections from Garcilaso. Spanish Mysticism: Fray Luis de Leon, San Juan de la Cruz.
November 23 Santa Teresa de Jesús: El libro de la vida --selection.
November 26-30 Quevedo and Góngora (Selections).
General Review and Discussion
December Examination
ESSAY II due on Friday 4, January 2002.
a) Instructor
Dr. Daniel H. Scarfo Office: Buchanan Tower 720
Assistant Professor Phone: 604-822-4679
Office Hours: By appointment e-mail: scarfo@interchange.ubc.ca
Chat hours: To be determined
b) The Course
Spanish 356a is intended to introduce students to some of the main literary genres and trends of the Middle Ages and the Golden Age in Spain through a study of representative works from both periods. The first purpose here is to read, enjoy, and interpret these texts.
Term I will begin with an overview of the ethnic, linguistic and political complexities of the medieval period, and their developments in the Golden Age, followed by a study of the prescribed texts. These will be read, not necessarily in chronological order, but in separate groups to provide an idea of the evolution of the different literary genres (if time permits).
c) Prescribed Texts
Term I: Antonio S‡nchez-Romeralo and Fernando Ibarra, eds., Antolog’a de autores espa–oles antiguos y modernos. Vol. I. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
d) Additional Materials for Term I
The following materials will be supplied by the instructor :
- - Readings from other authors or other texts from the same authors (if time permits)
- - A general bibliography of background reading, plus recommended readings on specific authors and texts.
e) Marking Scheme (Term I)
Essay I (4 pages) = 100 (due Wednesday, 31 October 20C01).
Essay II (8 pages) = 100 (due Friday , 4 January 2002).
Mid-term exam = 50
December Exam = 150
In class participation = 50
On-line participation (chats and discussions) = 20
Video assignments = 30
Total = 500/5 = 100 (- number of absences)
Each absence results in a one-point deduction from the Final 1st Term Grade. Minimum attendance requirement to pass the course: 29 classes out of 38: 75% approximately.
The Final Mark for the whole course (356a + 356b) will be the average of Terms I and II.
f) Essays
Your aim in your papers should be to situate the chosen text in relation to the general problematic or topic of the segment of the course. Try to indicate the specific character of the text, describing its central thesis or preocupation and its mode of presentation in suõch a way as to clarify its differences from other readings in the course. The second paper can be a continuation and rewriting of the problems discussed in the first one, revised and expanded into a final, 8 page paper.
g) Participation
All members of the class are encouraged to participate actively in on-line and off-line discussions and debates. Such participation is an important part of your performance. Please come to class with written notes, your questions and thoughts about the possible meanings of the texts your have read. What strikes you? What paragraphs or points seem to you to be the most significant or enigmatic? Why? Students will be asked to read these notes vand make very short (5 minutes) presentations on the spot and these will count as an important part of their participation mark.
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH, HISPANIC AND ITALIAN STUDIES
Spanish 356: The Middle Ages
Select Bibliography
Histories of Spanish Literature
J. L. Alborg, Historia de la literatura española, I, 2nd. ed., Madrid, 1970.
G. Bleiberg and J. Marías, Diccionario de la literatura española, ö3rd. ed., Madrid, 1964.
G. Brenan, The Literature of the Spanish People, 2nd. ed., 1957.
A. D. Deyermond, The Middle Ages, vol. 1 of A Literary History of Spain, London and New York, 1971. Now also available in a revised version in Spanish, Historia de la literatura española, 1. öLa Edad Media., 12th. ed., Barcelona, 1987.
G. Díaz Plaja, Historia general de las literaturas hisp‡nicas, vols. I, II and III.
J. M. Diez Borque, ed. Historia de la literatura espa–ola, I. La Edad Media.
Otis H. Green, Spain and the Western Tradition (also available in Spanish version, España y la tradición occidental ).
A. del Río, Historia de la literatura española.
Histories of Spain
W. C. Atkinson, A History of Spain and Portugal, Penguin Books, 1960.
T. Burckhardt, Moorish Culture in Spain, New York, 1972.
A. G. Chejne, Muslim Spain, Its History and Culture, Minneapolis, 1974.
J. A. Crow, Spain: The Root and the Flower. A History of the Civilization of Spain and of the Spanish People, New York, 1975.
J. H. Elliott, Imperial Spain
G. Jackson, The Making of Medieval Spain, London, 1972.
H. V. Livermore, A History of Spain, New York, 1968.
- - - -, The Origins of Spain and Portugal, London, 1971.
S. de Madariaga, Spain: A Modern History, New York, 1958.
Menéndez Pidal (director), Historia de España.
J. Callaghan, History of Medieval Spain, Ithaca, 1975.
S. G. Payne, A History of Spain and Portugal, Madison, WI, 1973.
J. Read, The Moors in Spain and Portugal, Totowa, N. J. , 1975.
B. F. OReilly, The Medieval Spains, Cambridge, 1993.
J. B. Trend, The Civilization of Spain, 2nd. ed., London, 1967.
Vicens Vives, Aproximación a la historia de España.
Cultural and Historical Interpretation and Approaches
D. Alighieri, De Vulgari Eloquentia.
E. Auerbach, Mimesis
M. Bataillon, Erasmo y España.
D. Bethurum, ed. Critical Approaches to Medieval Literature, New York, 1970.
H. Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence (new edition, with new preface, 1997); Kabbalah and Criticism
J. L. Borges, Selections from essays and stories dealing with medieval texts.
A. Castro, The Spaniards: An Introduction to their History, Berkeley, 1971.
- - - -, The Structure of Spanish History, Princeton, 1954. Reissued in Spanish as La realidad histórica de España, México, 1962.
E. R. Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, New York, 1953.
Also available in Spanish, with additional material on Spain, as Literatura Europea y Edad Media latina, trans. M. Frenk Alatorre and Antonio Alatorre, 2 vols., Madrid, 1984.
M. Foucault, The Order of Things (Les mots et les choses).
J. Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages, Penguin Books, 1965 (but frequently reprinted). Now available as The Autumn of the Middle Ages in a new unabridged translation by R. J. Payton and U. Mammitzsch, Chicago, 1996.
Hutchinson, Cervantine Journeys
F. López Estrada, Introducci—n a la literatura medieval española, Madrid, various editions (try to use the most recent you can find).
M. McKendrick, Theatre in Spain
H. R. Patch, The Goddess Fortuna in Medieval Literature, Cambridge, Mass., 1927.
D. Pike, Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds.
C. R. Post, Medieval Spanish Allegory, Cambridge, Mass., 1915.
F. Rico, El pequeño mundo del hombre: varia fortuna de una idea en las letras españolas, Madrid, 1970.
de Rougemont, Love in the Western World.
C. S‡nchez Albornoz, España, un enigma histórico, Buenos Aires, 1962.
Said, Orientalism; The World, the text and the critic.
S. Sarduy, Barroco.
Poesía
R. Menéndez Pidal, La epopeya castellana a través de la literatura española.
- - - - , Lírica española y antigua épica.
- - - -, Reliquias de la poesía épica española.
- - - - (ed.), (El) Cancionero de Juan Alfonso de Baena
- - - - , Flor nueva de romances viejos
- - - -, Romancero hispánico
- - - -, Romancero tradicional
Stern, S. M., Les chansons mozárabes
A. Alonso, Materia y forma en poesía.
D. Alonso, Poesía española
General linguistic and historiographic problems and history of the literary and philological narratives of medieval Spain as they have developed since de middle of the 19th century
R. Lapesa, Historia de la lengua española.
Lloyd, From Latin to Spanish
R. Menéndez Pidal, Orígenes del español
Al-Andalus and Sefarad - -and their legacies, for a better knowledge of both the fundamental texts of the non-Castillian cultures of medieval Spain, especially in the tenth through twelfth centuries (for the lyric) and the twelfth through fourteenth centuries (for the narrative).
Brann Ross, The Cumpunctuous Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain.
López Baralt, Las Huellas del Islam en la Literatura Española.
D. Metlitski, The Matter of Araby in Medieval England
M. R. Menocal, The arabic role in medieval literary history.
- - - -, Shards of love
Monroe, Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship.
Ortega y Gasset, Pr—logo a El collar de la paloma de Ibn Hazm (ed. y trans. García Gómez).
Orality and variation versus authors and texts, for the principal questions surrounding the textual nature and the establishment of criitcal editions of the Cid and the Libro de buen amor, the hermeneutics of orally-produced texts in general, the relationship of the romancero to the epic tradition.
Lord, The Singer of Tales
Editions of the Cid: Menendez Pidal, Colin Smith.
Editions of the Libro de Buen amor
