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SP10 Reading List

Below you will find a select bibliography of recommended secondary material which may be used in conjunction with the works of primary authors; though online bibliographical searches also offer access to a huge number of items relating to Catalan culture. Of particular interest in this respect are the cultural encyclopaedias Lletra (),Visat, the literary review of the Pen Club () and Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana() all of which have an English version. An asterisk (*) denotes that the item is available on the course’s Camtools webpage and can be downloaded.

Modernism, the Avant-Garde, Catalanism (1833-1939)

History, language and general overview
  • Balcells, A. Catalan Nationalism Past and Present (Macmillan, 1996)
  • Barbé, E. & Segura, A. ‘Catalonia: From Industrialisation to the Present Day.’ A Companion to Catalan Culture (Tamesis, 2011), pp. 71-96.
  • Ealham, C. Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898- 1937 (Routledge, 2005)
  • Fuster, J. Literatura catalana contemporània (Editora Nacional, 1975)
  • Keown, D. ‘Contemporary Catalan Culture.’ A Companion to Catalan Culture (Tamesis, 2011) pp. 13-40.
  • Strubell, M. ‘The Catalan Language’ A Companion to Catalan Culture (Tamesis, 2011), pp. 117-142.
  • Terry, A. A Companion to Catalan Literature (Tamesis, 1999)

Modernisme and Barcelona

  • Epps, B. “Modern Spaces: Building Barcelona.” In Iberian Cities. Ed. Joan Ramon Resina. New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 148-197.
  • Epps, B. ‘Space in Motion: Barcelona and the Stages of (In)visibility.’ Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Volume 6, 2002, pp. 193-204.
  • Epps, B. ‘Before Postnationalism: Supernationalism, Modernisme, and Catalonia.’ Arizona Journal of Hispanic Studies 7 (2003): 133-159.
  • Epps, B., (ed.), cluster of articles on Barcelona, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, Volume 6, 2002.
  • Epps, B. 'Before Postnationalism: Supernationalism, Modernisme and Catalonia.' Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 7:2003, 135-161.
  • Epps, B. ‘Barcelona and Modernity,’ Catalan Review: International Journal of Catalan Culture 18.1-2 (2004).
  • Epps, B. “Els llocs d’enlloc: Aspiracions utòpiques i limitacions materials del Pla Cerdà.” Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia, 63, 2007 (105-120)
  • Epps, B. ‘Modernisme in Catalonia.’ In Modernism. Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska (eds.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007. 781-800.
  • Hughes, R. Barcelona (Vintage, 1993)
  • McCully, M. Homage to Barcelona: the city and its art (1888-1936) (Thames & Hudson: 1987)
  • Mackay, D. Modern Architecture in Barcelona (ACS, 1992)
  • Terry, A. “The poetry of Joan Maragall.” ()
  • Tusquets, J. L'imperialisme cultural d'Eugeni d'Ors (Columna, 1989). [See also various Introductions to works by d'Ors in the UL (Pla, Murgades. Garrigues, Jardí, etc.)]

The Avant-Garde

  • Daniel, M. & Gale, M (eds.) Joan Miró: the ladder of escape. (Tate, 2011)
  • Epps, B. “The Avant-Garde Visual Poetry of Junoy and Salvat-Papasseit.” In Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí. New Haven and London: Cleveland Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, 2006. 328-331.
  • Keown, D. (Ed.) Salvat-Papasseit: Selected Poems (ACS, 1982 [http://www.anglo-catalan.org/downloads/acsop-monographs/issue02.pdf])
  • Keown, D. ‘Joan Salvat-Papasseit: a revolutionary domesticated.’ Catalan Review, XXII (2008), pp. 253-264.
  • Lanchner, C. Joan Miró (Museum of Modern Art N. Y., 1993).
  • Malet, R. M. Joan Miró (Polígrafa, 2003)

The Civil War and Franco Dictatorship (1940-1975)

  • Bath, A. 'Introduction' to Pere Calders, La verge de les vies. (Aris & Phillips, 1991), pp. 1-19.
  • Berga, M, 'George Orwell in his centenary year: A Catalan Perspective.' (ACS)
  • Cirlot, L. El grupo 'Dau al Set' (Cátedra, 1986).
  • Cirlot, L. La pintura informal en Cataluña, 1951-1970 (Anthropos, 1983).
  • Carbonell, Neus. La plaça del Diamant (Empúries, 1996)
  • Castellet, J. M. Iniciación a la poesía de Salvador Espriu. (Taurus, 1972)
  • Enrici, M (et al) Barcelone 1947-2007 (Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, 2007).
  • Epps, Brad. “Echoes and Traces: Catalan Cinema, or Cinema in Catalonia.” A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Jo Labanyi and Tatjana Pavlovic (eds., Blackwell, 2013), 50-80.
  • Epps, Brad. “Solitude in the City: Victor Català with Mercè Rodoreda” Ofelia Ferrán, Kathleen Mary Glenn (eds.), Women's Narrative and Film in Twentieth-century Spain: A World of Difference(s) (Routledge, 2002), 19-39.
  • "Brush" story by Pere Calders (translated by Louise Lewis, London: Blackie, 1982.)
  • Everly, K. Catalan Women Writers and Artists: Revisionist Views from a Feminist Space (Bucknell, 2003)nés, Fèlix. Pere Portabella: Avantguarda, cinema, política. (Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals/Raval Edicions, 2008).
  • Fanés, Fèlix. “Portabella, Brossa, Santos: Un traingle irregular.” Hispanic Review 78.4 (2010): 469-490.
  • Fernàndez, J-A. 'The Angel of History and the Truth of Love: Mercè Rodoreda's "La plaça del diamant"' The Modern Language Review Vol. 94, No. 1 (Jan., 1999), pp. 103-109.
  • Gregori, C. Pere Calders, tòpics i subversions de la tradició fantàstica (Abadia de Montserrat, 2006)
  • Ibarz, M. Exile and Reconstruction: Mercè Rodoreda and Visual Art in the 1950s. (The Anglo-Catalan Society. 2007 [])
  • Keown, D. Sobre la poesia catalana contemporània (3 i 4, 1996). [Chapters on Salvat- Papasseit, Espriu and Estellés.]
  • Keown, D. Polifonia de la subversió: la poesia de Vicent Andrés Estellés (Tàndem, 2000)
  • McNerney, K. and Vosburg N., (eds.) The garden across the border: Mercè Rodoreda's fiction. (Slinsgrove, 1994)
  • Losada, Matt. “Pere Portabella’s Umbracle and the Francoist Crusade Narrative.” Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 13:4: 339-354.
  • Lyons, K. Lord of the Shadow: poems by Salvador Espriu (Dolphin, 1972)
  • Marsh, Steven. “The Legacies of Pere Portabella: Between Heritage and Inheritance.” Hispanic Review 78.4 (2010): 551-567.
  • Pijoan i Picas, M. I. Salvador Espriu o els itineraris de la poesia (Abadia de Montserrat, 1991)
  • Pons, A. Pere Calders: veritat oculta (Eds.62, 1999)
  • Preston, P. La Guerra Civil: las fotos que hicieron historia : 1936-1939, tres años que desafían el olvido (Esfera de los libros, 2006)
  • Quintana, Àngel. Josep Maria Forn: Indústria i identitat. (Editorial Pòrtic / Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals / Generalitat de Catalunya, 2007.)
  • Roda, L. (Ed) Vicent Andrés Estellés, number of Reduccions dedicated to the author, 98/99 (2011)
  • Rodoreda Mercè, Els miralls interiors (videorecording in MML library)
  • Scarlett, E. A. Under construction: the body in Spanish novels (Virginia UP, 1994).
  • Terry, A. A Companion to Catalan Literature (Tamesis, 1999).
  • Torreiro, Casimiro. “‘Aimez-vous la Representation [sic]? Notes on the Cinema of Pere Portabella and on Informe General’.” In Modes of Representation in Spanish Cinema. Eds. Jenaro Talens and Santos Zunzunegui. (University of Minnesota Press, 1998:) 303-18.
  • Torrell, Josep. “Cuadecuc en Norteamérica.” Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra/cuadecuc-en-norteamerica--0/
  • Walters G. The Poetry of Salvador Espriu: To Save the Words (Tamesis, 2006)

The Post Franco Era

  • Cabello, Gabriel. “Construyendo Tiempo: Los Ensayos Cinematográficos de José Luis Guerín.” Ciberletras: Revista de critica literaria y de cultura 2004: 2.
  • Crameri, K. Language, the novelist and national identity in post-Franco Catalonia (Legenda, 2000)
  • Diaz-Vicedo, N. Maria-Mercè Marçal: an exploration of feminine poetics in the work of a late 20th century Catalan poet (Universitat d'Alacant, 2003: )
  • Diaz-Vicedo, N. Constructing Feminine Poetics in the Works of a Late Twentieth-Century Catalan Woman Poet: Maria-Mercè Marçal. (MHRA, 2014)
  • Feldman, Sharon G. “A Phenomenological Gaze: Josep M. Benet i Jornet.” In In the eye of the storm: contemporary theater in Barcelona. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2009: 103–162.
  • Feldman, Sharon G. “Catalunya Invisible: Contemporary Drama in Barcelona.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 6 (2002): 269–287. <doi:10.1353/hcs.2011.0315>
  • Feldman, S. and Holt P. Barcelona plays: a collection of new plays by Catalan playwrights (Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications, 2008)
  • George, D. Sergi Belbel and Catalan theatre: text, performance and identity (Tamesis, 2010)
  • George, D. (Ed with J. London) Modern Catalan plays (Methuen, 2000)
  • Guerín, José Luis. “En Construcción.” Visions de l’Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, 2012.
  • Keown, D. “Transparency and Commitment: the significance of Formentera in Aigua clara and L’illa de l’holandès.” Journal of Catalan Studies 2010, 36-59.
  • Marçal, Maria-Mercè, Antologia: selecció, traducció, pròleg i notes de Neus Aguado y Luisa Cotoner (Frontera, 2005). Available online via Digitalia (UL catalogue)
  • Marçal, Maria-Mercè, The body's reason: poems in Catalan translated by Montserrat Abelló and Noèlia Díaz Vicedo (Francis Boutle, 2014).
  • Martínez-Carazo, Cristina. “Deconstrucción/Reconstrucción: En Construcción de José Luis Guerín (2001).” Letras Hispanas 4 (2007): 1-15.
  • Nichols, B. Introduction to Documentary (Indiana UP, 2001)
  • Resina, Joan Ramon. “The Construction of the Cinematic Image: En Construcción (José Luis Guerín, 2001). In Burning Darkness: a Half Century of Spanish Cinema. Ed. Joan Ramon Resina and Andrés Lema-Hincapié. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008: 255–276.