SP Myth and Invention: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian and Latin American Culture

Suggested preliminary readings:

·0 Anthony Grafton, What is History? (Cambridge: CUP, 2007)

·1 Roger Collins, The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710-97 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989; reprt 1994)

·2 Derek W. Lomax, The Reconquest of Spain (London/New York: Longman, 1978)

·3 Karen Spalding, Huarochirí, an Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1984)

·4 Ignacio Navarrete, Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance
(Berkeley; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994)

·5 Jonathan Thacker, A Companion to Golden Age Theatre (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2007)

SP Iberian

Core reading:

·6 Norman Cantor, Inventing the Middle Ages (New York: Morrow, 1991), pp. 17-47.

·7 Umberto Eco, ‘Dreaming the Middle Ages’, in Travels in Hyperreality, transl. by W.

Weaver (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1986), pp. 61-72.

·8 Bruce Holsinger, The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory
(Chicago: University of Chicago, 2005): ‘Introduction’ and ‘Epilogue’.

·9 María Rosa Menocal, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians
Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain (New York and Boston, 2002) this is an
easy, non-scholarly read; it is worth checking out on-line reviews and blogs to gauge the
range of responses it has provoked.

·10 Edward Said, ‘Andalusia’s Journey’, travel + leisure (December 2002)

http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/andalusias-journey.

·11 David Wacks & Antonio Cortijo Ocaña. ‘Multilingual Medieval Iberia: Between the
Tongue and the Pen/ Entre la Lengua y la Pluma: La realidad multilingüe de la Iberia
medieval’, eHumanistica, 14 (2010)
http://www.ehumanista.ucsb.edu/volumes/volume_14/index.shtml. Last consutled
08/07/2014.
SL Medieval and Pre-modern: The Rus’ legacy and pre-modern identities in Russia, Ukraine
and Belarus

Preliminary reading:

·12 Plokhy, Serhii. The Origins of the Slavic Nations (Cambridge, 2006).

Additional background reading (subject to change):

·13 Bushkovich, Paul. Religion and Society in Russia. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries (New York/Oxford, 1992).

·14 Davies, Norman. God’s Playground. A History of Poland, vol. 1, The Origins to 1795
(Oxford, 2005).

·15 Franklin, Simon and Jonathan Shepard. The Emergence of Rus 750-1200 (London/New
York, 1996).

·16 Frost, Robert. The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2015).

·17 Gudziak, Borys. A. Crisis and Reform. The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarch of
Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest (Cambridge, MA, 2001)

·18 Kollmann, Nancy Shields. Kinship and Politics. The Making of the Muscovite Political
System, 1345-1547 (Stanford, 1987).

·19 Perrie, Maureen, ed. The Cambridge History of Russia, vol. 1 (Cambridge, 2006).

·20 Plokhy, Serhii. The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine (Oxford, 2001).

·21 Plokhy, Serhii. Ukraine & Russia. Representations of the Past (Toronto/Buffalo/London,
2008).

SL 20th Century: Self-Creation in 20th-Century Russian Culture

Indicative Primary Readings

·22 Venedikt Erofeev. Moskva-Petushki.

·23 Lidiia Ginzburg. Zapiski blokadnogo cheloveka.

·24 Vladimir Maiakovskii. “Kofta fata,” “Ia sam,” “Vo ves’ golos,” “Iubileinoe,” suicide note.

·25 Nikolai Ostrovskii. Kak zakalialas’ stal’.

·26 Abram Terts (Andrei Siniavskii). Liubimov.

Suggested Background Reading:

·27 Boym, Svetlana. Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.

·28 Dobrenko, Evgeny. The Making of the State Writer: Social and Aesthetic Origins of Soviet
Literary Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

·29 Dobrenko, Evgeny. Political Economy of Socialist Realism. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2007.

·30 Engelstein, Laura, and Stephanie Sandler, eds. Self and Story in Russian History. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2000.

·31 Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Tear Off the Masks!: Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century
Russia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

·32 Groys, Boris. The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.

·33 Harris, Jane Gary. Autobiographical Statements in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

·34 Hellbeck, Jochen. Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006.

·35 Kharkhordin, Oleg. The Collective and the Individual in Russia: A Study of Practices.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

·36 Lahusen, Thomas. How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in
Stalin’s Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

·37 Nakhimovsky, Alexander D., and Alice S. Nakhimovsky, eds. The Semiotics of Russian
Cultural History: Essays. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985.

·38 Olney, James, ed. Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2014.

·39 Paperno, Irina, and Joan Delaney Grossman, eds. Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of
Russian Modernism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.

·40 Paperno, Irina. Stories of the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2009.

·41 Suny, Ronald Grigor, ed. The Cambridge History of Russia: The Twentieth Century. Vol. 3.
 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

IT Women and Text: Women Writers and Writings about Women in Italy (1500-1900)

Preliminary Reading

·42 Cox, Virginia, 2008. Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400-1650. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University Press.

·43 Cox, Virginia, 2011, The Prodigious Muse: Women’s Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

·44 Kelso, Ruth, 1956. Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press (also 1978 ed.), pp. 5-37 ('Women in the scheme of things').

·45 King, Margaret, 1991. Women of the Renaissance. Chicago and London: University of
Chicago Press, pp. 1-62 ('Daughters of Eve: Women in the Family').

·46 Maclean, Ian, 1980. The Renaissance Notion of Woman. A Study in the Fortunes of
Scholasticism and Medieval Science in European Intellectual Life. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.

·47 Panizza, Letizia and Wood, Sharon, 2000 (eds). A History of Women’s Writing in Italy.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (chapters on 16th to 19th centuries only).

·48 Sanson, Helena, 2007. Donne, precettistica e lingua nell'Italia del Cinquecento: un
contributo alla storia del pensiero linguistico. Florence: Accademia della Crusca,
'Introduzione: la precettistica al femminile', pp. 1-23.

·49 Sanson, Helena, 2016 (in press). ‘‘Women and Conduct in the Italian Tradition, 1470-
1900: An Overview’, in Conduct Literature for and about Women in Italy, 1470-1900:
Prescribing and Describing Life, ed. Helena Sanson and Francesco Lucioli (Paris:
Classiques Garnier, 2016, in press).

·50 Wood, Sharon, 1995. Italian Women’s Writing, 1860-1994. London: Athlone Press (only
chapters on 19th century).

IT 20th Century: New Commitments: Literature, Cinema and Culture in Italy 1960 – present

General Reading

·51 The following are some key introductory texts:

 ·52 Antonello, P. and Mussgnug, F. eds, Postmodern impegno. Ethics and Commitment in
Contemporary Italian Culture, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009.

·53 Baranski, Z.G. and West, R. eds., Modern Italian Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001

·54 Burns, J., Fragments of ‘impegno’. Interpretations of Commitment in Contemporary

Italian Narrative 1980-2000, Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2001

·55 Forgacs, D. & Lumley, R., eds, Italian Cultural Studies, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1996

·56 Gordon, R. S. C., Introduction to 20th-Century Italian literature: A Difficult Modernity ,

London: Duckworth, 2005)

·57 Sorlin, P., Italian National Cinema, 1896-1996, London: Routledge, 1997

·58 Wood, M. Italian Cinema, Oxford: Berg, 2005.

GE Novel: Memory and Subjectivity in the German Novel

Indicative reading list:

·59 Marlen Haushofer, Wir töten Stella (1958) and/or Die Wand (1963) Ingeborg Bachmann,
Malina (1971) W.G. Sebald, Die Ringe des Saturn (1995) Herta Müller, Atemschaukel
(2009)

·60 NOTE: The reading list is merely indicative of the final list and is subject to change. Input
from participants on the selection of primary reading is very welcome.

GE Modern: Enlightenment and its Critics from Kant to Foucault

Introductory reading:

·61 D. Outram, The Enlightenment, 3rd edn (Cambridge 2013), ideally the whole book (it’s
only 150 pp. long), but at the very least the Introduction (pp. 1-10).

·62 A. Pagden, The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters (Oxford 2013), ‘Preface’ (pp. vii-
xiv), ‘Introduction: What is Enlightenment?’ (pp. 1-19), and ‘Conclusion: Enlightenment
and Its Enemies’ (pp. 315-352).

·63 J. Israel, A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of
Modern Democracy (Princeton 2011)
 ·64 J. Schmidt, ‘Introduction: What is Enlightenment? A Question, its Context, and Some
Consequences’, in: J. Schmidt (ed.), What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-century Answers
and Twentieth-century Questions (Berkeley and Los Angeles 1996), pp. 1-45

·65 R. Koselleck, Critique and Crises: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
(Cambridge/Mass. 1998)

GE Medieval: The alterity of medieval literature

Preliminary reading

Any one of the following:

·66 Anja Becker and Jan Mohr, ‘Alterität. Geschichte und Perspektive eines Konzepts. Eine
Einlleitung’, in Alterität als Leitkonzept für historisches Interpretieren, ed. Anja Becker
and Jan Mohr, Berlin 2012, pp. 1-58.

·67 Manuel Braun, ‘Alterität als germanistisch-mediävistische Kategorie: Kritik und Korrektiv’,
in Wie anders war das Mittelalter? Fragen an das Konzept der Alterität, ed. Manuel
Braun, Göttingen 2013, pp. 7-38.

·68 Hans-Robert Jauss, Alterität und Modernität der mittelalterlichen Literatur, Munich
1977, pp. 9-47.

·69 Christian Kiening, ‘Alterität und Methode. Begründungsmöglichkeiten fachlicher

Identität’, in Germanistische Mediävistik und ‘Bologna-Prozess’, ed. Peter Strohschneider,
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes 52, no. 1 (2005), 150-166.

·70 Ursula Peters, ‘ “Texte vor der Literatur?” Zur Problematik neuerer Alteritätsparadigmen
der Mittelalter-Philologie’, Poetica 39 (2007), 59-88.

FR Medieval: Inventing History

Preparatory reading: You are not expected to have read all items but simply to have browsed
through to get an idea.

·71 Aurell, Jaume, “Decontextualizing stories’ in R. Maxwell, ed., Representing history,

(University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 2010).

·72 Delogu, Paolo, An Introduction to Medieval History, trans. Matthew Moran (London:
Duckworth, 2002), orig. publ. as: Introduzione allo studio della storia medievale
(Bologna: Il Mulino, 1994). Introductory chapters.
·73 Gaimar. Geffrei Gaimar: Estoire des Engleis: History of the English, ed. Ian Short (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2009). Just look it over and the introduction.

·74 Guenée, Bernard, Histoire et culture historique dans l’occident medieval (Paris: Aubier
Montaigne, 1980). (Read early chapters)

·75 Huot, Sylvia. Postcolonial fictions in the Roman de Perceforest: cultural identities and
hybridities (Woodridge: D.S. Brewer, 2007).

·76 Joslin, Mary Coker, The Heard word: a moralized history. The Genesis section of the
Histoire ancienne in a text from Saint-Jean d’Acre (Lafayette: University of Mississippi
Press, 1986) provides the Genesis section of the Histoire ancienne.

·77 Lathuillère, Roger, Guiron le courtois, étude de la tradition manuscrite et analyse critique
(Geneva: Droz, 1966). (Read the summary of the text at the end)

·78 Løseth, E., Le roman en prose de Tristan: le "Roman de Palamède" et la compilation de

Rusticien de Pise. Analyse critique d'après les manuscrits de Paris (Paris: Bouillon
(Bibliothèque de l'École pratique des hautes études, 82), 1890), [réimpr.: New York,
Franklin, 1970; Genève, Slatkine, 1974]. (Read the summary of the text at the end)

·79 Morrison, Elizabeth and Anne D. Hedeman, eds., Imagining the Past in France: History in
manuscript painting, 1250-1500 (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010) (Read
relevant entries)

·80 Paul, Nicholas and Suzanne Yeager, eds., Remembering the Crusades: myth, image, and
identity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). (Introduction)

·81 Perceforest (première partie, deuxième partie [2 vols.], troisième partie [3 vols.],
quatrième partie [2 vols.], ed. G. Roussineau, TLF 279, 506, 540, 365, 409, 434, 343
(Geneva: Droz, 1979-2001). (photocopies of relevant passages can be provided)

·82 Spiegel, Gabrielle, The Past as text: the theory and practice of medieval historiography
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997). Especially the intro and first
chapter.

·83 Le Roman de Tristan en prose, ed. Renée L. Curtis, 3 vols: i (Munich: Max Hueber, 1963);
ii (Cambridge: D.S Brewer, 1985); iii (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1985).

·84 Le Roman de Tristan en prose, ed. Philippe Ménard et al., 9 vols (Geneva: Droz, 1987-97).

·85 de Visser van Terwisga, Marjike, L’Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César (Orléans: Paradigme,
1995). Lots of good introductory material.

·86 Wace, La partie arthurienne du roman de Brut, ed. I.D.O. Arnold and M.M. Pelan (Paris:
Klincksiek, 1962).
 ·87 Zinelli, Fabio, ‘Las histories franceses de Troia i d’Alexandre a Catalunya i a ultramar’, Mot
so razo (2013, vol. 12). In Catalan.

·88 Paul Zumthor, in La mesure du monde (Paris: Seuil, 1993). Skim.

FR Contemporary: Modern and Contemporary French and Francophone Culture: Articulations

of the Real

Preparatory reading might include any of the following (or similar):

·89 Roland Barthes, La Chambre claire.

·90 Jean Baudrillard, La Société de consommation.

·91 Alain Corbin (et al), Histoire du corps, 3: Les Mutations du regard. Le Xxe siècle.

·92 Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Mille plateaux.

·93 Jacques Derrida, Le Toucher.

·94 Georges Didi-Huberman, Ce que nous voyons, ce qui nous regarde.

·95 _, La Ressemblance informe.

·96 _, Images malgré tout.

·97 Mary Ann Doane, The Emergence of Cinematic Time.

·98 Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises in Witnessing.

·99 Hal Foster, The Return of the Real.

·100 Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism.

·101 Martin Jay, Downcast Eyes.

·102 _, Force Fields.

·103 Rosalind Kraus and Yve-Alain Blois, Formless: A User's Guide.

·104 Julia Kristeva, Pouvoirs de l'horreur.

·105 Jacques Lacan, Le Séminaire, XI : Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la

psychanalyse.

·106 Laura U. Marks, The Skin of the Film.

 ·107 _, Touch.

·108 Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Le Visible et l'invisible.

·109 Jean-Luc Nancy, Les Muses.

·110 _, Au Fond des images.

·111 Martha Nussbaum, Love's Knowledge.

·112 Jacques Rancière, Le Partage du sensible.

·113 Kristin Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies.

·114 Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain.

·115 Michael Sheringham, Everyday Life.

·116 Vivian Sobchack, The Address of the Eye.

·117 Susan Rubin Suleiman, Subversive Intent.

·118 _, Risking Who One Is.

·119 Cathryn Vasseleu, Textures of Light.

·120 Andrew Webber, The European Avant-Garde 1900-1940.

·121 Slavoj Zizek, The Fright of Real Tears.

·122 _, Welcome to the Desert of the Real.

ID Gesture

Preliminary reading:

·123 Giorgio Agamben, ‘Notes on Gesture’ in Means without End (University of

Minnesota, 2000)

·124 Sherman, Jacob Partakers of the Divine: Contemplation and the Practice of
Philosophy (Fortress Press, 2014).

ID Marginalities: Marginalities in Nineteenth-Century European Culture

Background reading:
·125 Althusser, Louis, 'Ideology and ideological state apparatuses : notes towards an
investigation', from Lenin and philosophy, and other essays (1971)

·126 Bernheimer, Charles. Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in

Nineteenth Century France (1989)

·127 Davis, J. A, 'Italy's sad primacy': crime and the social question', in ID. Conflict and
Control. Law and Order in Nineteenth-Century Italy (Macmillan, 1988), pp. 314-342

·128 Foucault, Michel. Les Anormaux. Paris: Seuil, 1999. [pending translation]

·129
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan
(1995)

·130 Gallagher, C., and Thomas Laqueur, Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and
Society in the Nineteenth Century (1987)

·131 Gibbs, Jack P. Norms, Deviance, and Social Control: Conceptual Matters. New
York: Elsevier, 1981.

·132 Goffman, Erving. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity [1963].
Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990.

·133 Matlock, Jann. Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading

Difference in Nineteenth Century France (1994)

·134 Merrick, Jeffrey and Bryant T. Ragan. Homosexuality in Modern France. Oxford:
OUP, 1996.

·135 Noël Valis (2004). The Culture of Cursilería: Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in
Modern Spain. Duke University Press
Nordau, Max. Degeneration, Introduction

·136 George L. Mosse, Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1993
 ·137 Nye, Robert A. Crime, Madness and Politics in Modern France: The Medical
Concept of National Decline. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.

·138 Perrot, Philippe. Fashioning the Bourgeoisie : a history of clothing in the

nineteenth century, translated by Richard Bienvenu. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton
University Press, c1994

·139 Pick, Daniel. Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c.1848-c.1918,

Cambridge: CUP, 1989

·140 Thomson, Rosemary Garland (ed). Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the

Extraordinary Body. New York: New York University Press, 1996.

·141 Weininger,Otto. Sex and Character, 1903

ID Cultures: Cultures of the Renaissance

Preliminary reading

·142 R. Chartier, The Order of Books, tr. Lydia Cochrane, Stanford UP, 1994

·143 G. Cavallo and R. Chartier (eds.), A History of Reading in the West, first published
1997

·144 E. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and

Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe, Cambridge UP, 1979

·145 J. H. Elliott, The Old World and the New (1492-1650) (Cambridge: CUP, 1970)

·146 E. H. Gombrich, Symbolic Images: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance (London:
Phaidon, 1972)

·147 Thomas Greene, The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry
(New Haven: Yale UP, 1982)
 ·148 P. Grendler, Culture and Censorship in late Renaissance Italy and France,1981

·149 P. O. Kristeller, Renaissance Concepts of Man, and Other Essays (New York:
Harper & Row, 1972)

·150 Eva D. Marcu, Sixteenth-century Nationalism (New York: Abaris, 1975)

·151 D. F. McKenzie, Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts, London, British Library,
1985 (repr. CUP, 1999);,

·152 M. McLaughlin, Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance: The Theory and
Practice of Literary Imitation in Italy from Dante to Bembo (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1995)

·153 Orest Ranum (ed.), National Consciousness, History, and Culture in Early Modern
Europe (Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins UP, 1975)

·154 B. Richardson, Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy, Cambridge UP,
1998

·155 B. Richardson, ‘Questions of language’, in The Cambridge Companion in Modern

Italian Culture, eds Z. Baranski and R. West (Cambridge, CUP: 2001), 63-79.

ID City: The Modern City

Preliminary reading:

·156 Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature, ed. Kevin McNamara

(Cambridge: CUP, 2014)

·157 Andrew Webber and Emma Wilson (eds), 'Cities in Transition: The Moving
Image and the Modern Metropolis' (London: Wallflower, 2008)