European cultural history: the Spanish Civil War
A 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. Students taking this subject as part of a major sequence in French and/or Spanish will be required to read the texts in the original language. The film for special study will be Saura's Mama Turns a Hundred. Other films on, or related to, the Spanish Civil War will be shown at lunchtime during the semester.
Assessment
Written (4000 words): 65% * Examinations (2 hours): 35% * Option of further 2000-word essay in place of a 2-hour exam
Prescribed texts
Hemingway E The fifth column Penguin
Hemingway E For whom the bell tolls Penguin
Jackson S A concise history of the Spanish Civil War Thames and Hudson
or
Thomas H The Spanish Civil War Penguin
Kenwood A (ed.) The Spanish Civil War: A cultural and historical reader Berg
Orwell G Homage to Catalonia Penguin
Recommended texts
Benson F R Writers in arms: The literary impact of the Spanish Civil War New York UP
Harts S '[[exclamdown]]No pasarán!' Art, literature and the Spanish Civil War Támesis
Preston P The coming of the Spanish Civil War Macmillan
Thomas G The novel of the Spanish Civil War CUP