Department of Iberian and Latin American Studies School of Languages, Linguistics and Film Queen Mary, University of London

CAT/COM 4011 CATALAN CULTURE: HISTORY, LANGUAGE, ART

Semester: 2 Level: 4 Location: Bancroft G.07 (10.00-12.00).

Credit Value: 15 credits

Module Organizer: John London (Room 1.33, Arts One; Email: j[email protected])

Pre-requisite: None

Assessment: This module is assessed by coursework only (i.e. there is no examination), but not all the writing you produce will count towards the final mark. Assessment works as follows:

- 30% of the final mark will come from one 1,500-word essay to be submitted during the semester. - 70% of the final mark will come from a 2,500-word essay to be written after the end of the module.

Precise submission dates and questions for these assessments will be provided: at least two weeks before submission (for the first essay); at least four weeks before submission (for the second essay). In addition, students will be required to present talks based on the seminar questions in the following Schedule and Bibliography.

1 All students must ensure that they obtain a copy of the School handbook and follow the School’s guidelines and regulations in all matters regarding this module. Students must note that failure to do so may result in de-registration from the module, which may have a significant impact on their overall degree classification.

Description This module offers a general introduction to modern and contemporary Catalan culture from the beginning of the twentieth to the twenty-first century. Topics covered include: nationalism; the politics of language; the avant-garde art of Salvador Dalí and Miró; literature; football. There is no language requirement for this module; therefore it is suitable for students with no knowledge of Catalan and Spanish.

Learning Outcomes By the end of the semester, students will be familiar with the cultural, political and social background of the Catalan Countries. This will enable them to have a more sophisticated understanding of modern Spain and will provide them with a useful background for any module in Peninsular culture, film or literature they may take in the future. Students will also have developed analytical skills through the study of the links between language, identity and politics, and between art, cultural identity and social modernization. By the end of the semester students will have acquired certain writing skills that will help them express their ideas, improve the quality of their arguments and increase their awareness of the problems they may have in this respect.

2 Module Schedule: Spring 2020

* Primary texts to be read before the corresponding lecture each week carry an asterisk *.

Week 1: 24 January: Introduction; Catalan language and history; the European context: * Raimon Casellas, Els sots feréstecs / Dark Vales.

Week 2: 31 January: Seminar & Lecture: * Raimon Casellas, Els sots feréstecs / Dark Vales.

Week 3: 7 February: Seminar & Lecture: * Raimon Casellas, Els sots feréstecs / Dark Vales.

Week 4: 14 February: Seminar: * Raimon Casellas, Els sots feréstecs / Dark Vales. Lecture: Salvador Dalí.

Week 5: 21 February: Seminar: Salvador Dalí. Lecture: Joan Miró.

Week 6: 28 February: Seminar: Joan Miró. Lecture: * Salvador Espriu, La pell de brau.

Week 7: 6 March: READING WEEK.

Week 8: 13 March: * Salvador Espriu, La pell de brau. Lecture: * Salvador Espriu, La pell de brau.

Week 9: 20 March: Seminar: * Salvador Espriu, La pell de brau. Lecture: * Pere Calders, The Virgin of the Railway.

Week 10: 27 March: Seminar: * Pere Calders, The Virgin of the Railway. Lecture: * Pere Calders, The Virgin of the Railway / Catalan Football.

Week 11: 3 April: Seminar: Catalan Football Lecture: Discussion of essay topics and possible approaches.

NO CLASS ON 10 APRIL (QMUL CLOSED: GOOD FRIDAY).

3 Reading List

QMUL Library codes (where available) are given after the items listed. Note that many items are available in Warburg or Senate House, University of London library, Malet Street or in UCL. When an item is indicated as ‘on order’ you should verify the current state of the catalogue in QMUL and, if no code is yet available, ask a librarian to see if the item can be processed quickly.

* Primary texts to be read before the corresponding lecture each week carry an asterisk *. A sample of the relevant bibliography for each topic will help you further.

Introductions to Catalan History, Literature, and Culture Balcells, Albert, Catalan Nationalism: Past and Present (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996). DP 302. C68. BAL. Eaude, Michael, Barcelona: The City that Re-invented Itself (Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2008). DP 402. B25. EAU. Payne, John, Catalonia: History and Culture (Nottingham: Five Leaves, 2004). DP 302. C62 PAY. Raeburn, Michael, Homage to Barcelona: The City and Its Art 1888-1936 (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985). N7 111. B2. HOM; Senate House: f V3LgdtS Hom. Terry, Arthur, A Companion to Catalan Literature (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2003). PC 3901 TER; Senate House: 3 XKU2 Ter.

* Raimon Casellas, El sots feréstecs, ed. by Jordi Castellanos (Barcelona: Edicions de 1984, 2014), different edn: PC3941. C17. CAS; translation: Dark Vales, trans. by Alan Yates (Sawtry: Dedalus, 2014). TEACHCOLLH, PC 3941. C364 CAS.

Seminar Questions 1) How do the first two chapters establish an atmosphere in Els sots feréstecs? 2) How does the landscape relate to the characters of Els sots feréstecs? 3) What is the role of the priest mossèn Llàtzer in Els sots feréstecs? 4) Is Els sots feréstecs an essentially irreligious book? 5) What are the salient features of Casellas’s prose style in Els sots feréstecs? 6) To what extent is the dominant perspective in Els sots feréstecs fundamentally theatrical? (Answer with reference to detailed discussion of one chapter of your choice.)

4 Secondary Material On literary / artistic genres McCarthy, M. J., ‘Catalan Modernism, Messianism and Nationalist Myths’, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 52 (1975), 379-95. JOURNAL CLASSMARK PQ/S. Terry, Arthur, ‘Catalan Literary Modernisme and Noucentisme: From Dissidence to Order’, in Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction: The Struggle for Modernity, ed. by Helen Graham and Jo Labanyi (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 55-57. DP 233.5 SPA. Terry, Arthur, A Companion to Catalan Literature (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2003), pp. 84-87, 97-103. PC 3901 TER; Senate House: 3 XKU2 Ter. Yates, Alan, ‘Catalan Literature Between Modernisme and Noucentisme’, in Homage to Barcelona: The City and Its Art 1888-1936, ed. by Michael Raeburn (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985), pp. 253-63. N7 111. B2. HOM; Senate House: f V3LgdtS Hom.

On Casellas Castellanos, Jordi, Raimon Casellas i el modernisme (Barcelona: Curial, 1983). On order. Castellanos, Jordi, ‘Pròleg’, in Raimon Casellas, El sots feréstecs, ed. by Jordi Castellanos (Barcelona: Edicions de 1984, 2014), pp. 5-22. PC3941. C36. Crocker, Geoff, journalistic review on site: Atheists Spirituality, 2014: http://atheistspirituality.net/review-dark-vales-by-raimon-casellas/ Tree, Matthew, Review, TLS, 1 January 2016, p. 21. Pdf on QMPLUS. Yates, Alan, Una generació sense noveŀla?: la novel·la catalana entre 1900 i 1925 (Barcelona: Llibres a l’Abast, 1984). PC 3917 YAT. Yates, Alan, ‘Introduction’, in Dark Vales, trans. by Alan Yates (Sawtry: Dedalus, 2014), pp. 11-15. TEACHCOLLH, PC 3941. C364 CAS.

Salvador Dalí

Seminar Questions 1) How does Dalí change our view of reality in his work (up to 1938)? Answer with reference to Dalí’s visual and written work. 2) Does Dalí maintain his link to Catalan culture until 1938? 3) ‘Dalí presents an essentially personal vision in his art and writing.’ Discuss with reference to work finished up to 1938.

See Dalí’s writing from the early period, originally in Catalan: Salvador Dalí: The Early Years, ed. by Michael Raeburn (London: South Bank Centre, 1994), pp. 214-29, 233. N7113. D3 DAL; WARBURG: CRL 325.

Secondary Material See catalogues in Senate House on Dalí. Fanés, Fèlix, Salvador Dalí: The Construction of the Image, 1925-1930 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007). ND 813 D2 FAN.

5 Finkelstein, Haim, ‘Dalí’s Small Stage of Paranoial Ceremonial’, in A Companion to Spanish Surrealism, ed. by Robert G. Havard (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2004), pp. 117-40. NX 562 COM. Gibson, Ian, The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí (London: Faber and Faber, 1997). WARBURG: CRL 325. G31. Raeburn, Michael, ed., Salvador Dalí: The Early Years (London: South Bank Centre, 1994). N7113. D3 DAL. WARBURG: CRL 325. Robinson, William H., ed., Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí (New Haven, CT: The Cleveland Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2006). N7111. B2. ROB.

Joan Miró

Seminar Questions 1) Can Miró’s painting up until 1939 be said to be lacking allegiance to any country? 2) What are the essential subjects of Miró’s painting?

Questions on Dalí and Miró 1) Is the work of Dalí and Miró too avant-garde to capture the popular imagination? Answer with reference to writing and art. 2) How can the art of Dalí and Miró be defined as Catalan? 3) What is the point of distorting form? Answer with reference the work of Dalí and Miró.

Secondary Material See catalogues in Senate House on Miró. Fanés, Fèlix, ‘Joan Miró, 1929: High and Low Culture in Barcelona and Paris’, in Visualizing Spanish Modernity, ed. by Susan Larson and Eva Woods (Oxford: Berg, 2005), pp. 244-62. DP 203.5 VIS. Palermo, Charles, Fixed Ecstasy: Joan Miró in the 1920s (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008). ND 813. M48 PAL. Penrose, Roland, Miró (London: Thames and Hudson, 1985). ND 813. M48 PEN. Robinson, William H., ed., Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí (New Haven, CT: The Cleveland Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2006). N7 111. B2. ROB. Rowell, Margit, Joan Miró: Selected Writings and Interviews (New York: Da Capo Press, 1992). N7113. M54. MIR.

Catalonia during Francoism and Beyond Benet, Josep, L’intent franquista de genocidi cultural contra Catalunya (Barcelona: Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 1995) (with much material in Spanish). DP302. C68 BEN. Conversi, Daniele, The Basques, the Catalans and Spain: Alternative Routes to Nationalist Mobilisation (London: Hurst & Company, 1997). DP 302. C68 CON.

6 Guibernau, Montserrat, Catalan Nationalism: Francoism, Transition and Democracy (London: Routledge, 2004). DP302. C68. GUI.

* Salvador Espriu, La pell de brau, in Final de laberint. La pell de brau (Barcelona: Observador, 1991). PC 3941. E84. ESP; La pell de brau, trans. by Burton Raffel (Malboro, VT: The Malboro Press, 1987). PC 3941. E84. ESP; Senate House: 3 XKU E784G. See also: Selected Poems of Salvador Espriu, ed. and trans. by Magda Bogin (New York: W.W. Norton, 1989), pp. 51-69 (different translation of eight poems with original as well). Senate House: 3XKV E 784Y 989.

Seminar Questions 1) In which ways does the meaning of La pell de brau emerge? 2) Does Espriu convey anything more than a repressed nation in La pell de brau? 3) ‘Poetic technique disappears in the political impulse.’ Is this a fair assessment of La pell de brau? 4) How does versification function in La pell de brau?

Secondary Material Alpera, Lluís, ‘Introduction’, in Salvador Espriu, La pell de brau, trans. by Burton Raffel (Malboro, VT: The Malboro Press, 1987), pp. xv-xxii. PC 3941. E84. ESP; Senate House: 3 XKU E784G. Capmany, Maria Aurèlia, Salvador Espriu (Barcelona: DOPESA, 1971). PC 3941 E8 Z5 CAP. Grau i Colell, Josep, Invitació a la poesia de Salvador Espriu (Barcelona: Claret, 1992). PC 3941 E8 E5 GRA. Miralles, Carles, Sobre Espriu (Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 2013), pp. 265-304. Senate House: 3 XKU E784a Mir. Rosenthal, David, Postwar Catalan Poetry (Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1991), pp. 42-55. PC 3913 ROS; Senate House: 3 XKU5 ROS. Terry, Arthur, ‘The Public Poetry of Espriu: A Reading of La pell de brau’, Iberomania, 9 (1979), 76-97. Journals Classmark PC. Vallverdú, Francesc, ‘Introduction’, in Selected Poems of Salvador Espriu, ed. and trans. By Magda Bogin (New York: W.W. Norton, 1989), pp. xxv-xxxiii. Senate House: 3XKV E 784Y 989. Waters, D. Gareth, The Poetry of Salvador Espriu: To Save the Words (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2006), pp. 126-42. PC 3941 E8 Z5 WAL; Senate House: 3 XKU E784a WAL.

Pere Calders, ‘The Virgin of the Railway’ and other Stories, trans. by Amanda Bath (Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1991). Original Catalan and translation. PC3941. C25. CAL; Senate House: XKU C157Y 990; Senate House Stack: PC3941. C25. A2.

7 Seminar Questions 1) ‘Identification with a Caldersian character is rare.’ (Amanda Bath) Do you agree? 2) What is the function of the humour and irony in Calders’s stories? 3) Does the short story form allow a different approach to conveying belief systems? 4) ‘Calders is a master of his form.’ Do you agree? Answer using detailed critical commentary of at least two stories. 5) Are Calders’s stories an ostensible product of the period in which they were written?

Secondary Material Bath, Amanda, ‘Pere Calders: His Fiction and Ideology’ (unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Bristol, 1984). Bath, Amanda, Pere Calders, ideari i ficció (Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1987). PC 3941. C14 BAT. Bath, Amanda, ‘Introduction’, in Pere Calders, ‘The Virgin of the Railway’ and other Stories, trans. by Amanda Bath (Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1991), pp. 1-18. TEACH COLLH PC 3941. C25 CAL. Catalan Review, 10 (1996). See all issue: Journals Classmark PQ/S. Puig Molist, Carme, Pere Calders i el seu temps (Barcelona: Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2003). On order. Reid, Ian, The Short Story (London: Methuen, 1977). PN81. CRI/37. Shaw, Valerie, The Short Story, A Critical Introduction (New York: Longman, 1983). PN3448. S4. SHA. Villatoro, Vicenç, ‘Pere Calders’ (interview in English), Catalonia (March 1987), 17-21. Pdf. On QMPLUS.

Football

Seminar Questions 1) In what ways does Catalan football perform a nation? 2) Can football perform Catalan identity in ways unavailable to other cultural manifestations? 3) Is football potentially divisive for those who live in Catalonia?

Secondary Material Balague, Guillem, Barça: The Illustrated History of FC Barcelona (London: Carlton, 2014). GV943.6 B3 BAL. Balibrea, Mari Paz, The Global Cultural Capital: Addressing the Citizen and Producing the City in Barcelona (London: Palgrave/Springer Nature, 2017). HN 590 B3 BAL. Ball, Phil, Morbo: The Story of Spanish Football (London: WSC Books, 2011). GV944 57 BAL. Burns, Jimmy, Barça: A People’s Passion (London: Bloomsbury, 1999). GV943.6 B3 BUR.

8 Crolley, Liz, ‘Real Madrid v. Barcelona: the State Against a Nation? The Changing Face of Football in Spain’, International Journal of Iberian Studies, 10, no. 1 (1997), 33- 43. On order. Hunter, Graham, Barça: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World, 2nd edn (Glasgow: BackPage Press, 2012). GV943.6 B3 HUN. Lowe, Sid, Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona vs Real Madrid (London: Yellow Jersey Press, 2013). GV944. S65 LOW. McFarland, Andrew, ‘Building a Mass Activity: Fandom, Class and Business in Early Spanish Football’, Soccer & Society, 8.2-3 (2007), 205-20. Online. Quiroga, A., ‘Spanish Fury: Football and National Identities under Franco’, European History Quarterly, 45.3 (2015), 506-29. Online. Shobe, Hunter, ‘Football and the Politics of Place: Football Club Barcelona and Catalonia, 1975-2005’, Journal of Cultural Geography, 25.1 (2008), 87-105. Online. Shobe, Hunter, ‘Place, Identity and Football: Catalonia, Catalanisme and Football Club Barcelona, 1899-1975’, National Identities, 10.3 (2008), 329-43. Online. Xifra, Jordi, ‘Soccer, Civil Religion and Public Relations: Devotional-Promotional Communication and Barcelona Football Club’, Public Relations Review, 34.2 (2008), 192-98. Online.

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