Senior Lecturer in Catalan

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7882 8314
Fax: +44 (0) 20 8980 5400
email: j.larios@qmul.ac.uk

Semester 1, 2011-12

Modules taught: CAT101 Catalan Culture: Language, History, Art, CAT201 Desire and Society in Twentieth Century Catalan Literature, and HSP141 Introduction to Hispanic Studies

Office hours: Wednesday 11am-12noon and Thursday 10am-11am

Research day (not contactable by email): Friday

Jordi Larios's research interests are in the areas of twentieth-century Catalan and Spanish poetry, and twentieth-century Catalan and Spanish narrative, with special reference to the work of writers who came to the fore in the 1920s and 1930s. He has just finished a monograph on Llorenç Villalonga. He has translated into Catalan a number of works by English and American writers.

Publications (since 2000)

Books

• Llorenç Villalonga i la fi del món (Barcelona: Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2007).
• El cop de la destral (Barcelona: Cafè Central/EUMO Editorial, 2007).

Articles and book chapters

• '"The Centre Cannot Hold”: Llorenç Villalonga’s Version of Pastoral in Les Fures (1967)", Spanish Film, Theatre and Literature in the Twentieth Century, eds David George and John London, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007, pp.135-162.
• 'Obdúlia Montcada: entre La deshumanización del arte i el Glosari', Journal of Catalan Studies, (2007), pp.54-79.
• 'L'home desil.lusionat i l'ànima envilida: Una interpretació de Bearn o la sala de les nines', Els Marges, no. 80 (2006), pp.67-95.
• '"Aina Cohen, c'est moi", o Aina Cohen és l'Altra?', Catalan Review: International Journal of Catalan Culture, vol. 19, no. 1-2 (2005), pp.199-220.
• 'Dos finales al principio: "Diré cómo nacisteis" y "Noche de luna", de Luis Cernuda', Tesserae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, eds Trevor J. Dadson & Derek Flitter, vol. 11, no. 2-3 (2005), pp.161-175.
• 'Novels Like Worms: Villalonga's Mort de dama and the Avant-Garde', Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol. LXXIX, no. 2-3 (2002), pp.355-368.
• '"Contra Jaime Gil de Biedma" y "el fatigado tema" del doble', in La poesía española del siglo XX y la tradición literaria, eds Trevor J. Dadson & Derek W. Flitter, Birmingham: University of Birmingham Press, 2003, pp.94-110.
• 'Apuntes para una lectura de "Lázaro", de Luis Cernuda', in Voces subversivas: Poesía bajo el régimen (1939-1975), eds. Trevor J. Dadson & Derek W. Flitter, Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 2000, p.1-15.

Translations

• Dorothy Parker, La solitud de les parelles, in Dorothy Parker, Narracions completes, Barcelona: Quaderns Crema, 2003, pp.7-190. [First published in 1995]
• Dorothy Parker, Cor de crema, in Dorothy Parker, Narracions completes, Barcelona: Quaderns Crema, 2003, pp.191-425. [First published in 1995]
• O'Henry, 'El rescat del cabdill dels indis', in Relats d'humor, ed. Montserrat Amores, Barcelona: Vicens Vives, 2003, pp.43-63.
• Saki, 'Tobermory', in Relats d'humor, ed. Montserrat Amores, Barcelona: Vicens Vives, 2003, pp.65-80.
• O'Henry, 'El rescate de Jefe Rojo', in Relatos de humor, ed. Montserrat Amores, Barcelona: Vicens Vives, 2002, pp.43-63.
• Saki, 'Tobermory', in Relatos de humor, ed. Montserrat Amores, Barcelona: Vicens Vives, 2002, pp.65-80.

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