The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature

Cambridge University Press, 1/13/2005
EAN 9780521806183, ISBN10: 0521806186

Hardcover, 898 pages, 23.5 x 15.9 x 5.1 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

This is the first comprehensive history of Spanish literature to be published in English since the 1970s. It brings together experts from the USA, the United Kingdom, and Spain. Together, the essays cover the full range of Spanish poetry, prose, and theatre from the early Middle Ages to the present day. The classics of the canon of eleven centuries of Spanish literature are covered, from Berceo, Cervantes and Calderón to García Lorca and Martín Gaite, but attention is also paid to lesser known writers and works. The chapters chart a wide range of literary periods and movements. The volume concludes with a consideration of the influences of film and new media on modern Spanish literature. This invaluable book contains an introduction, more than fifty substantial chapters, a chronology (covering key events in history, literature, and art), a bibliography, and a comprehensive index for easy reference.

Part I. Introduction David T. Gies
Part II. History and Canonicity
1. Literary history and canon formation Wadda Ríos Font
Part III. The Medieval Period
2. Medieval Spanish literature in the twenty-first century John Dagenais
3. Beginnings Maria Rosa Menocal
4. The poetry of medieval Spain Andrew M. Beresford
5. Medieval Spanish prose James Burke
6. The medieval theater
between Scriptura and Teatrica Charlotte Stern
Part IV. Early Modern Spain
Renaissance and Baroque
7. Renaissance and Baroque
continuity and transformation in early modern Spain Jeremy Robbins
8. Religious literature in early modern Spain Alison P. Weber
9. Renaissance poetry Julian Weiss
10. Antecedents of the novel in sixteenth-century Spain E. Michael Gerli
11. Miguel de Cervantes Anthony J. Close
12. The making of Baroque poetry Mary R. Gaylord
13. The development of national theater Margaret Greer
14. Lope Félix de Vega Carpio Victor Dixon
15. Pedro Calderón de la Barca Evangelina Rodríguez Cuadros
16. Didactic prose, history, politics, life writing, convent writing, Crónicas de Indias Jorge Checa
Part V. The Enlightenment and Neoclassicism
17. Spain and enlightenment Philip Deacon
18. Eighteenth-century neoclassicism Philip Deacon
19. Eighteenth-century prose writing Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos
20. Eighteenth-century poetry Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos
21. Neoclassicial vs. popular theater Joaquín Álvarez Barrientos
Part VI. The Forging of a Nation
the Nineteenth Century
22. Romanticism in Spain Derek Flitter
23. The theater in Romantic Spain David T. Gies
24. Martino José de Larra Gregorio C. Martín
25. Romantic poetry Susan Kirkpatrick
26. Romantic prose, journalism and Costumbrismo Michael Iarocci
27. Benito Pérez Galdós Harriet S. Turner
28. The realist novel Stephen Miller
29. The naturalist novel Stephen Miller
30. The theater in post-Romantic Spain David T. Gies
31. Poetry in the second half of the nineteenth century María Ángeles Naval
Part VII. The Modern, Modernismo, and the Turn of the Century
32. Nineteenth-century women writers Lou Charnon-Deutsch
33. The Catalan Renaixença Joan Ramon Resina
34. Great masters of Spanish modernism Nil Santiáñez
35. The poetry of Modernismo in Spain Richard Cardwell
36. Modernism in Catalonia Joan Ramon Resina
37. Modernist narrative in the nineteen-twenties C. A. Longhurst
38. Noucentisme Joan Ramon Resina
39. Ideas, aesthetics, historical studies Nelson Orringer
40. The Catalan avant-garde Joan Ramon Resina
Part VIII. Twentieth-Century Spain and the Civil War
41. Poetry between 1920–40 Enric Bou
42. Prose
early twentieth century Nigel Dennis
43. The commercial stage, 1900–36 Dru Dougherty
44. Theatrical reform and renewal, 1900–36 Dru Dougherty
45. Federico García Lorca Andrew A. Anderson
Part IX. In and out of Franco Spain
46. The literature of Franco Spain, 1939–75 Michael Ugarte
47. Twentieth-century literature in exile José María Naharro Calderón
48. Prose in Franco Spain Janet Perez
49. Poetry in Franco Spain Guillermo Carnero
50. Theater in Franco Spain Martha Halsey
51. Film censorship under Franco, 1937–75 Marvin D'Lugo
Part X. Post-Franco Spanish Literature and Film
52. Spanish literature between the Franco and post-Franco eras José Carlos Mainer
53. Post-Franco poetry Juan Cano Ballesta
54. Post-Franco prose Brad Epps
55. Post-Franco theater Sharon Feldman
56. Spanish literature and the language of the new media Susan Martin-Marquez
Bibliography.