7AASM026 The Problem of Woman in Early Hispanic Literature
Credit value: 20 credits
Module tutor: Professor Robert Archer
Assessment: 1 essay 4000 words 100%; 1 practice essay
Teaching pattern: 1 x 2hr seminar weekly
Module description
The module examines samples from an important body of writing by men from the late fourteenth to the mid-fifteenth centuries that are concerned with the nature of woman. Many of the notions that appear in such texts are by no means only relevant to the Middle Ages, but are still in circulation; in this way they cast much light on current underlying attitudes to women.
After studying the general background to this kind of writing, the module looks closely at how the discourses of misogyny and defence were worked out in several fifteenth and early sixteenth century texts, some of them major literary achievements like Arcipreste de Talavera , Bernat Mete’s Lo somni (Sueño) or Celestina, and other much less well known but equally illuminating.
Primary texts
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Archer, Robert, 2000, Misoginia y defensa de las mujeres: una antología de textos medievales (Madrid: Cátedra & Instituto de la Mujer/Valencia: Universitat de València).
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Archer, Robert, The Problem of Woman in Medieval Hispanic Literature (London: Tamesis, 2005).
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Archer, Robert, La cuestión odiosa: la mujer en la literatura tardomedieval hispánica (Valencia: Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 2011)
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Flores, Juan de, La historia de Grisel y Mirabella, ed. Alcázar López, Pedro & José González Núñez (Granada: Ediciones Don Quijote, 1983)
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Martínez De Toledo, Alfonso, Arcipreste de Talavera o Corbacho, ed. Michael Gerli (Madrid: Cátedra, 1992)
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Metge, Bernat Sueño, trans. Alfredo Darnell Gascou (Madrid-Barcelona: Alianza-Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1987)
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Pérez Priego, MiguelÁngel, Poesía femenina en los cancioneros (Madrid: Castalia, 1989)
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Rodríguez Del Padrón, Juan, Triunfo de las donas, in Obras completas, ed. César Hernández Alonso (Madrid: Editora Nacional, 1982).
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Martín de Córdoba, Jardín de nobles don cellas (to be supplied)