European cultural history: the Spanish Civil War
Alun Kenwood
8 points * 3 hours per week * First semester * Clayton
This subject aims to familiarise students with the origins of the war in earlier Spanish history, the ideologies of the European background against which it unfolded and its broad impact on the intellectual life and artistic production of the 1930s and beyond. The subject will involve the reading of historical and literary selections as well as the study of visual material - posters, painting and film.
Assessment
Written (4000 words): 65% * Examinations (2 hours): 35% * Option of 2000-word essay in place of an examination
Prescribed texts
Jackson S A concise history of the Spanish Civil War Thames and Hudson
or
Thomas H The Spanish Civil War Penguin
Hemingway E The fifth column Penguin
Hemingway E For whom the bell tolls Penguin
Kenwood A (ed.) The Spanish Civil War, a cultural and historical reader Berg
Orwell G Homage to Catalonia Penguin
Saura Mama Turns a Hundred (film)