1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies
The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies takes an important place in the scholarly landscape by bringing together a compelling collection of essays that reflect the evolving ways in which researchers think and write about the Iberian Peninsula.
Features include:
- A comprehensive approach to the different languages and cultural traditions of the Iberian Peninsula;
- Five chronological sections spanning the period from the Middle Ages to the 21st century;
- A state-of-the-art account of the field, reaffirming Iberian Studies as a dynamic and evolving discipline with promising areas for future research;
- An array of topics of an interdisciplinary nature (history and politics, language and literature, cultural studies and visual arts), focusing on the cultural distinctiveness of Iberian traditions;
- New perspectives and avenues of inquiry that aim to promote a comparative mode within Iberian Studies and Hispanism.
The fifty authoritative, original essays will provide readers with a diverse cross-section of texts that will enrich their knowledge of Iberian Studies from an international perspective.
PART I - Medieval Iberia (8th-15th Centuries)
History, Politics and Cultural Studies
1 Festive Traditions in Castile and Aragon in the Late Middle Ages: Ceremonies and Symbols of Power
Teofilo F. Ruiz, University of California, Los Angeles
2 Faith and Footpaths: Pilgrimage in Medieval Iberia
George D. Greenia, College of William & Mary
3 Before the Reconquista: Frontier Relations in Medieval Iberia, 718â1031
Jonathan Jarrett, University of Leeds
4 The Faiths of Abraham in Medieval Iberia
John Edwards, University of Oxford
5 Medieval Iberian Cultures in Contact: Iberian Cultural Production as Translation and Adaptation
Michelle M. Hamilton, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Literature and Visual Culture
6 Court and Convent: Senses and Spirituality in Hispanic Medieval Womenâs Writing
Lesley K. Twomey, Northumbria University
7 An Interstitial History of Medieval Iberian Poetry
David A. Wacks, University of Oregon
8 Revisiting the History of Medieval Translation in the Iberian Peninsula
Julio-César Santoyo, Universidad de León
9 Subjectivity and Hermeneutics in Medieval Iberia: The Example of the Libro de buen amor
Robert Folger, UniversitÀt Heidelberg
10 Patrons, Artists and Audiences in the Making of Visual Culture in Medieval Iberia (11th-13th Centuries)
Manuel Castiñeiras, Universitat AutĂČnoma de Barcelona
PART II - The Iberian Peninsula in the Golden Age (16th and 17th Centuries)
History, Politics and Cultural Studies
11 The Early Modern Iberian Empires: Emulation, Alliance, Competition
Alexander Ponsen and Antonio Feros, University of Pennsylvania
12 The Iberian Inquisitions in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Between Coercion and Accommodation
Helen Rawlings, University of Leicester
13 The Way Behind and the Way Ahead: Cartography and the State of Spain in Cabeza de Vacaâs RelaciĂłn
Kathryn M. Mayers, Wake Forest University
14 Purity and Impurity of Blood in Early Modern Iberia
Rachel L. Burk, Notre Dame of Maryland University
15 The Expulsion of the Moriscos: Seven Monumental Paintings from the Kingdom of Valencia
E. Michael Gerli, University of Virginia
Literature and Visual Culture
16 The Influence of Tirant lo Blanch on Golden Age Authors
Rosa Navarro DurĂĄn, Universitat de Barcelona
17 Women from the Periphery in Don Quixote: Ekphrasis versus Counter-Narrative
Frederick A. De Armas, University of Chicago
18 "Para tiempos de veras / se ejercitan en las burlas:" Some Uses of Rehearsal on the Golden Age Stage
Jonathan Thacker, University of Oxford
19 Iberian Myths and American History in Balbuenaâs El Bernardo
Rodrigo Cacho Casal, University of Cambridge
20 Fallen Idols? Vice and Virtue in the Iconography of Icarus and Phaethon
Richard Rabone, University of Warwick
PART III - The Iberian Peninsula in the 18th and 19th Centuries
History, Politics and Cultural Studies
21 Hispano-Irish Women Writers of Spainâs Late Enlightenment Period
Elizabeth Franklin Lewis, University Mary Washington
22 The End of Empire and the Birth of the Modern Nation, 1808-1868
JesĂșs Cruz, University of Delaware
23 Carlists against Liberalism: Counter-Revolution in the Iberian Peninsula during the Nineteenth Century
Jordi Canal, Ăcole des hautes Ă©tudes en sciences sociales (EHESS)
24 From Patriotism to Liberalism: Political Concepts in Revolution
Javier FernĂĄndez SebastiĂĄn, Universidad del PaĂs Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
25 The Modern City, 1850-1900: Urban Planning and Urban Culture in Barcelona, Madrid and Bilbao
Benjamin Fraser, University of Arizona
Literature and Visual Culture
26 Building Nations through Words: Iberian Identities in 19th-Century Literary Historiography
Santiago Pérez Isasi, Universidade de Lisboa
27 The Poetized Peopling of Nineteenth-Century Spain/s
Ronald Puppo, Universitat de Vic
28 Death and the Crisis of Representation in NarcĂs Ollerâs La febre dâor and PĂ©rez GaldĂłsâs La de Bringas
Elisa MartĂ-LĂłpez, Northwestern University
29 Performing the Peninsula: Costumbrismo and the Theatre of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Alberto Romero Ferrer, Universidad de CĂĄdiz
30 Painting in the Spanish Enlightenment: Artists at Court and in the Academy
Andrew Schulz, Pennsylvania State University
PART IV - The Iberian Peninsula during the 20th Century
History, Politics and Cultural Studies
31 The Idea of Empire in Portuguese and Spanish Life, 1890-1975
Filipe Ribeiro De Meneses, Maynooth University
32 The Fate of Spainâs "Nationalisms" during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
George Esenwein, University of Florida
33 Beyond the Nation: Spanish Civil War Exile and the Problem of Iberian Cultural History
Sebastiaan Faber, Oberlin College
34 Translation and Censorship under Franco and Salazar: Irish Theatre on Iberian Stages
Raquel Merino-Ălvarez, Universidad del PaĂs Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
35 Unsettling the Iberian Transitions to Democracy of the 1970s
Pamela Radcliff, University of California, San Diego
Literature and Visual Culture
36 Buñuel, Lorca, and DalĂ: A New Tradition
AgustĂn SĂĄnchez Vidal, Universidad de Zaragoza
37 Reclaiming the Goods: Rendering Spanish-Language Writing into Catalan and Galician
MarĂa Liñeira, Maynooth University
38 Postwar Spanish Fiction and the Pursuit of Spanish Reality
David K. Herzberger, University of California, Riverside
39 Celluloid Consensus: A Comparative Approach to Film in Portugal during World War II
Isabel Capeloa Gil, Universidade CatĂłlica Portuguesa
40 (Inter)national Spectres: Cinema in Mid-Twentieth-Century Iberia
Brad Epps, University of Cambridge
PART V - Iberian Studies in the 21st Century
History, Politics and Cultural Studies
41 Pro-Sovereignty Politics in Catalonia and the Basque Country: Are the Two Cases Comparable?
Richard Gillespie
42 Going Global: The International Journey of Basque Culture and Literature
Mari Jose Olaziregi, Universidad del PaĂs Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
43 Democracy, Indignados, and the Republican Tradition in Spain
JosĂ© Luis MartĂ, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
44 Mediatizing a Past of Conflict. The Spanish Civil War through TV Documentaries in the Twenty-First Century
Enric CastellĂł, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
45 A Transmodern Approach to Afro-Iberian Literature
CristiĂĄn H. Ricci, University of California, Merced
Literature and Visual Culture
46 Fermented Memory: The Intemperance of History in the Narrative of RamĂłn Saizarbitoria
Joan Ramon Resina, Stanford University
47 Of Treasure Maps and Dictionaries: Searching for Home in Carlota Fainberg, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao and LâĂșltim patriarca
Laura Lonsdale, University of Oxford
48 Rewriting the Iberian Female Detective: Deciphering Truth, Memory, and Identity in the Twenty-First-Century Novel
Antonia Delgado-Poust, University Mary Washington
49 Reflexivity in Iberian Documentary Film
Samuel Amago, University of Virginia
50 Human Memory and the Act of Remembering in Contemporary Iberian Graphic Novels
Javier Muñoz-Basols, University of Oxford and Micaela Muñoz-Calvo, Universidad de Zaragoza
Biography
Javier Muñoz-Basols is Senior Instructor in Spanish and Co-ordinator of the Spanish language programme at the University of Oxford.
Laura Lonsdale is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Oxford and Fellow of The Queenâs College.
Manuel Delgado is Professor of Spanish at Bucknell University.
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"A remarkable collection of in-depth essays on a vast array of topics relating to Iberian cultures across the ages. Rather than focusing on Spain as an isolated unit, this book encourages readers to view Iberia as a wholeâa multifaceted, multicultural entity in which diverse languages, traditions, and histories come into play. Interdisciplinary in concept, it includes essays on politics and art, literature and geography, economics and religion, history and visual culture by acclaimed experts from both sides of the Atlantic. The articles on Irish cultural influences in Spanish are particularly refreshing. The articles on women during different periods of Iberian history help to provide a comprehensive view of Iberian society. Also extremely innovative are the sections on twentieth and twenty-first-century Iberia, which offer not only a new look at the rise of fascism and the civil war, but also groundbreaking work on Spanish film, television and popular literature, including comics. This is a book that all Hispanicists will want to have on their bookshelves." -Professor Barbara Mujica, Georgetown University, USA
"A timely and engaging exploration of the new mapping of the field. In less than a decade, the debate about the need to shelve monologic and monolithic versions of Hispanism and replace them with a more plural relational approach has taken centre stage. There is growing consensus that the cultural, historical and political complexity of the territory cannot be addressed within traditional disciplinary borders with the old methodological tools. This book is a response to demands to put the reconfiguration of the field into practice. Many of the leading scholars in Iberian Studies have contributed to this monumental collection that demonstrates the justification and rewards of a comparative perspective. It derives some fruitful lessons from the application of the premises of Comparative Literature to the internal differences