Monash University Arts Undergraduate Handbook, 1997

SPN3430

European cultural history: the Spanish Civil War

K Foster

8 points
* 3 hours per week
* First semester
* Clayton

Objectives Students completing this subject should have acquired an understanding of and a multidisciplinary perspective on a key political and cultural event of the 1930s, and an awareness of the impact of international ideologies on national issues.

Synopsis 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 Cousin Angelica. 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 (Students who do not meet the attendance requirement will be required to do the examination)

Prescribed texts

Hemingway E For whom the bell tolls Penguin

Jackson S A concise history of the Spanish Civil War Thames and Hudson

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

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