Lou Charnon-Deutsch
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D. 1978, University of Chicago

Frank Melville, Jr. Memorial Library N3018
(631) 632-6031
 
      Spanish Realism
SPN541 FALL 2004 MONDAYS 5-8 PROF CHARNON-DEUTSCH
This course examines a serious of classical realist texts written for the most part in the 1880s during the Restoration. The novels studied will be compared with various other literary forms that occupied the same cultural space as the novel (the folletín, the cuento festivo, women's writing, translations, the radical Naturalist novella) to show the relationship of the realist novel to the mass culture from which it attempted to distinguish itself in order to create a new reading public in Spain. Secondary sources will be provided in a packet of readings distributed in class on the first day and will include articles on the novel, popular culture and the realist project. The packet will also contain several novellas including La senda de la Gloria by María de Pilar Sinués de Marco, La novela en la tranvía by Pérez Galdós, and La prostituta by Eduardo López Bago.

 
No. Date Primary Text Secondary Text Report
1 30-Aug Intro
2 13-Sep Böhl de Faber, La Gaviota Pérez Galdós, A La novela en el tranvía Galdós A Observaciones; Grassi La misión de la mujer ; Jagoe Disinheriting the Feminine 1) women novelists
3 20-Sep Pérez Galdós Tormento Blanco A Escritora, Femeninidad y Escritura , Vernon, sel. from Money and Fiction Guest Alda Blanco, U Wisconsin
4 27-Sep Galdós Lo prohibido Blanco, Intro to Lo prohibido 2) Sex and Sin Adultery and the novel
5 4-Oct Clarín, La Regenta (Part I) Labanyi, Pathologizing 3) Gender trouble, El doble silencio del eunuco
6 11-Oct Clarín, La Regenta (Part II) Deutsch, Hydraulics of Clarinian Studies ; Galdós, A prólogo a La Regenta 4) suggestions for further research on La Regenta
7 18-Oct Galdós, Fortunata y Jacinta (I) Labanyi Liberal Political Theory ; Krauel, Un caso en la frontera; Galdós A Discurso 5) suggestions for further research on Fortunata y Jacinta
8 25-Oct Galdós, Fortunata y Jacinta (II) Jagoe Subversive Angel; Labanyi A The Consumption 6) Mujeres en los discursos de género
9 1-Nov Pardo Bazán, Los Pazos de Ulloa Deutsch, A Bearing Motherhood 7) Naturalism and the A Problematizing the Natural
10 8-Nov López Bago La Prostituta [read if available in Bib. Virtual, Miguel de Cervantes] OR selecciones de revista FERNÁNDEZ, Pura (1995). Eduardo López Bago y el Naturalismo radical. (sel) 8) Magazine fiction, novela por entregas, folletines, etc.
11 15-Nov Galdós, El amigo Manso Articles on Krausism; Castillo A Problematics 9) Metafiction before and after El amigo manso
12 22-Nov Clarín et al Las vírgenes locas [Read in Bib Virtual] Reig A Las Vírgenes 10) Magazines and popular culture (Lou Deutsch) 11) t.b.d.
13 29-Nov Clarín, Su único hijo Zamora, sel. on Su único hijo 12) the > hero = of realist fiction
14 6-Dec Conclusiones/cena en casa de Lou abstracts of final papers