Spanish Literature
and Culture Study Library.

Don Juan Manuel, Conde Lucanor — Ejemplo XXXV ('Lo que sucedió a un mancebo que se casó con una mujer muy fuerte y muy brava') · Anonymous, 'Romance de la pérdida de Alhama' — Romancero tradition · Medieval narrative prose: exemplum form, didactic purpose, frame narrative · Oral tradition features: formulaic epithets, parallelism, assonant rhyme in the romance · Reconquista historical and cultural context · Archaic Castilian: vocabulary, syntax, and conventions of 14th–15th century Spanish

Anonymous, Lazarillo de Tormes — Prólogo and Tratados 1, 2, 3, 7: picaresque genre, unreliable narrator, social critique · Anonymous, 'Romance de la pérdida de Alhama' — continued Romancero context (cross-unit link with Unit 1) · Miguel León-Portilla (ed.), Visión de los vencidos — two sections: indigenous perspectives on the Conquest · Hernán Cortés, 'Segunda carta de relación' — colonial discourse, self-fashioning, epistolary form · Garcilaso de la Vega, 'Soneto XXIII' — Petrarchan sonnet conventions, carpe diem, Renaissance lyric · Spanish Renaissance humanism and the impact of Erasmianism on prose · Encounter between Spain and the Americas: colonial narrative modes, competing voices · Picaresque conventions: low-born protagonist, episodic structure, satirical function

Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha — Part 1 chapters 1–5, 8–9; Part 2 chapter 74: metafiction, narrative levels, parody of chivalric romance · Tirso de Molina, El burlador de Sevilla — comedia conventions, the Don Juan archetype, honor code · Francisco de Quevedo, 'Salmo XVII' — conceptismo: conceit, paradox, meditations on death · Luis de Góngora, Soneto CLXVI — culteranismo: Latinate syntax, mythological allusion, ornate imagery · Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 'Hombres necios que acusáis' — feminist argument, redondilla form, colonial New World context · Spanish Baroque aesthetics: desengaño (disillusionment), the tension between appearance and reality · Culteranismo vs. conceptismo as competing Baroque poetic modes · Cervantine metafiction: the embedded manuscript, named narrators, authorial intrusion

José María Heredia, 'En una tempestad' — Cuban Romantic lyric, the sublime, nature as mirror of interior emotion · Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, 'Rima LIII' — post-Romantic Spanish lyric, brevity, musicality, the evanescence of love · Emilia Pardo Bazán, 'Las medias rojas' — Spanish naturalism, class oppression, gender violence, determinism · Romantic aesthetics: the individual vs. society, nature as sublime force, emotional intensity · Realism and naturalism: social documentation, determinism, critique of patriarchal structures · The rima as lyric form: tonal compression, ambiguity, and musicality in Bécquer · Latin American Romanticism vs. peninsular Romanticism: political and geographic dimensions

Miguel de Unamuno, San Manuel Bueno, mártir — nivola form, existential crisis, faith vs. doubt, the philosophical novel · Antonio Machado, 'He andado muchos caminos' — Generation of '98 lyric, memory, the Castilian landscape as existential backdrop · José Martí, 'Nuestra América' — Latin American political essay, anti-imperialism, cultural identity (added in most recent CED revision) · Rubén Darío, 'A Roosevelt' — Modernista aesthetics, anti-imperialist political poetry, contrast of Latin and Anglo cultures · Horacio Quiroga, 'El hijo' — River Plate short story, psychological horror, paternal grief, naturalist influence · Generation of '98: response to the loss of Cuba and Puerto Rico (1898), spiritual and national crisis in Spanish literature · Modernismo: Parnassianism, symbolism, musicality, exoticism, Darío's renovation of Spanish-language verse · The philosophical novel (nivola): Unamuno's formal experimentation and metafictional self-awareness

Federico García Lorca, La casa de Bernarda Alba — tragic drama, patriarchy and female repression, the honor code, symbolic imagery (white/black, water, moon) · Federico García Lorca, 'Prendimiento de Antoñito el Camborio en el camino de Sevilla' — Romancero gitano, duende, Gypsy identity, Andalusian cultural mythology · Osvaldo Dragún, El hombre que se convirtió en perro — Latin American absurdist/experimental theater, alienation, labor exploitation (added in most recent CED revision) · Pablo Neruda, 'Walking around' — surrealist imagery, urban alienation, the speaker's existential revulsion in Residencia en la tierra · Nicolás Guillén, 'Balada de los dos abuelos' — Afro-Cuban Negrismo, the African and Spanish dual heritage, son rhythm and poetic form · Alfonsina Storni, 'Peso ancestral' — feminist lyric, critique of gendered emotional labor, the sonnet as ironic container · Nancy Morejón, 'Mujer negra' — Afro-Cuban identity, historical retelling of African diaspora and Cuban Revolution (added in most recent CED revision) · Julia de Burgos, 'A Julia de Burgos' — Puerto Rican feminist lyric, the split self, social conformity vs. authentic identity · García Lorca's concept of duende: the dark, irrational creative force in Andalusian art · Vanguardismo and surrealism in Latin American poetry: Neruda's renovation of lyric imagery

Jorge Luis Borges, 'Borges y yo' — prose poem, the divided self, authorship and identity, metafiction (added in most recent CED revision) · Jorge Luis Borges, 'El Sur' — Borgesian ambiguity, the labyrinth of narrative, dream vs. reality, Argentine identity · Julio Cortázar, 'La noche boca arriba' — neofantástico, the uncanny, parallel temporal realities, Aztec sacrifice · Carlos Fuentes, 'Chac Mool' — Mexican identity, pre-Columbian mythology erupting into modernity, the fantastic · Gabriel García Márquez, 'El ahogado más hermoso del mundo' — magical realism, community transformation, mythological narrative · Gabriel García Márquez, 'La siesta del martes' — elliptical realism, silence and omission as narrative technique, dignity in grief · Isabel Allende, 'Dos palabras' — the power of language, oral storytelling, female agency and authorship within Boom conventions · Juan Rulfo, 'No oyes ladrar los perros' — rural Mexico, minimalist style, father-son conflict, moral ambiguity · Magical realism: the matter-of-fact narration of extraordinary events within a social-realist framework · El Boom as a publishing and aesthetic phenomenon: the international reception of Latin American fiction in the 1960s–70s

Tomás Rivera, ...y no se lo tragó la tierra — two chapters: Chicano experience, migrant farmworker life, episodic structure, oral tradition, code-switching · Sabine Ulibarrí, 'Mi caballo mago' — New Mexico Hispano identity, the cuento tradition, nature and childhood memory, lyrical prose style · Rosa Montero, 'Como la vida misma' — contemporary Spanish fiction, metafiction, the nature of storytelling, gender dynamics (added in most recent CED revision) · Chicanx literary identity: negotiating cultural heritage, language politics, and the U.S. Southwest landscape · Code-switching and bilingualism as literary devices in U.S. Hispanic literature · The cuentista tradition: oral narrative conventions adapted to written literary prose · Contemporary Spanish narrative: post-Franco cultural production and the self-reflexive short story