EUR3430

European cultural history: the Spanish Civil War

Proposed to be offered next in 1999

Jorge Paredes

8 points
* 3 hours per week
* 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. 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 lunch-time during the semester.

Assessment Written (4000 words): 65%
* Examination (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 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 Cousin Angelica (film)