Spanish and Portuguese Gothic
General Studies
Emilia Pardo Bazán (Spain)
Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)
Francis Calderon de la Barca
Camilo Costelo Branco (Portugal)
Ignácio de Loyola Brandão (Brazil)
Julio Cortázar (Argentina)
Lluïsa Cunille (Spain)
Miguel Delibes (Spain)
Esteban Echeverria (Argentina)
Elena Garro (Mexico)
Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia)
Carmen Martin-Gaite (Spain)
Adelaida García Morales (Puerto Rico)
Alvaro Mutis (Colombia)
Silvina Ocampo (Argentina)
Clemente Palma (Peru)
Laura Alicia Palomares-Esquivel (Mexico)
Benito Perez-Galdos (Spain)
Agustin Perez Zaragoza y Godinez (Spain)
Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay)
Mário de Sá-Carneiro (Portugal)
AMICOLA. José. La Batalla de los géneros: Novela gótica versus novela de educación. Rosario, Argentina: Viterbo, 2003.
BERTSCHE, Allen Parker-Suarez. “The Unseen Spectre: The Gothic Mode in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Narrative.” Dissertation Abstracts International 61:8 (2000): 359 (University of Wisconsin, Madison).
CURBET, Joan. “‘Hallelujah to Your Dying Screams of Torture’: Representations of Ritual Violence in English and Spanish Romanticism” (161-82). European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960, ed. Avril Horner. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002.
DUSSAILLANT, Chantal. “Decadencia por Principio: Decadentismo en la Narrativa Hispanoamericana de fines del Siglo XIX y Comienzos del XX." Dissertation Abstracts International 65:12 (2005): 4580 (New York University).
GONZALEZ, Tanya. "Murders, Madness, Monsters: Latina/o Gothic in the U.S.A." Dissertation Abstracts International 65:8 (2005): 2988-89 (University of California, Riverside).
JUÁREZ, Leonor. “Ghostly Traces: Gender and Genre in the Popular Gothic Fiction of Early Nineteenth-Century Spain.“ Dissertation Abstracts International 66:3 (2005): 986 (University of Miami).
JONES-KELLOGG, Rebecca L. “Alexandre Herculano and the Historical-Gothic Tradition in Portugal: Dark Times, Mad Monks and National Critique in 'O Fronteiro d'Africa ou Três Noites Aziagas' (1838), 'Eurico o Presbitero' (1844) and 'O Monge de Cister' (1848). Dissertation Abstracts International 68.4 (2007): 1479.
KENDRICK-ALCÀNTARA, Carolyn. “Life among the Living Dead: The Gothic Horrors of Latin American Literature.” Dissertation Abstracts International 68.7 (2008): 2963.
PARAVISINI-GEBERT, Lizabeth. “Colonial and Postcolonial Gothic: The Caribbean” (pp. 229-57). The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction, ed. Jerrold E. Hogle. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
PEREZ, Janet. “Contemporary Spanish Women Writers and the Feminine Neo-Gothic.“ Romance Quarterly 51:2 (2004): 125-40.
SOLAZ, Lucia. “Literatura gótica." Espéculo: Revista de Estudios Literarios 23 (2003).
SOUSA, Maria Leonor Machado de. A Literatura “negra” ou “de terror” en Portugal (Séculos XVIII XIX). [GGII: 1353].
2.) Emilia Pardo Bazán (Spain) (1852-1921)
COLAHAN, Clark and Alfred RODRIGUEZ. “Lo ‘Gótico’ como formula creativa de Los Pazos de Ulloa.” [GGII: 1323].
HART, Stephen M. “The Gendered Gothic in Pardo Bazán’s Los Pazos de Ulloa” (pp. 216-29). Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain, eds. Lou Charnon Deutsch and Jo Labanyi. Oxford, England: Clarendon, 1995.
PEREZ, Janet. “Naturalism and Gothic: Pardo Bazán’s Transmogrifications of the Genre in Los Pazos de Ulloa” (pp. 143-56). Studies in Honor of Donald W. Bleznick, eds, Delia Galvan, Anita K. Stoll, and Yin Philippa Brown. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 1995.
3.) Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) (1899-1986)
MCALLISTER, Robin. “Borges’ ‘El Aleph’ and Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’” (pp. 83-88). Visions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, ed. Allienne Becker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
4.) Francis Calderon de la Barca (0000-0000)
CABALLERO, Soledad. “Gothic Routes, or the Thrills of Ethnography: Francis Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico.“ (pp. 143-62) The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Constructions in the Literary Imagination, eds. Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Douglas L. Howard. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.
5.)Camilo Costelo Branco (Portugal) (1825-1890)
ISHIMATSU, L.C. “Camilo Castelo Branco and the Gothic Tradition: Three Early Works.” La Chispa 85: Selected Proceedings. [GGII: 1329].
6.) Ignácio de Loyola Brandão (Brazil) (1936- )
KRABBENHOFT, Kenneth. "Ignácio de Loyola Brandão and the Fiction of Cognitive Estrangement.” [GG-II: 1335].
7.) Julio Cortázar (Argentina) (1914- )
KIPNIS, L. “El Transporte publico como espacio amenazante en tres relatos de Cortázar.” Neophilologus 84 (2000): 75-86. [Public Transport as Menacing Space in Three Cortázar Stories.].
8.) Lluïsa Cunille (Spain) (1961- )
PASCUAL, Itziar. “Aristas de la palabra contemporanea.” Primer Act 19:247 (1993): 26-29. [Aristocrats of the Contemporary Word.]
9.) Miguel Delibes (Spain) (1920- )
WOOD, Guy. “El disputado voto del señor Cayo: El extrano caso de unas elecciónes goticas.” Letras Peninsulares 10:2 (1997): 229-47. [The Disputed Vote of Mr. Cayo: The Extraordinary Case of One Gothic Election.]
10.) Esteban Echeverria (Argentina) (1805-51)
MONTELEONE, Jorge. “Esteban Echeverria: Aquelarre en la Pampa.“ Everba (2002):
Carlos Fuentes (Mexico) (1928- )
KADIR, Djelal. “Other Tombs: Structures of Mexican Gothic.” [GGI: 1989].
MUNOZ-BASOLS, Javier. “La Recreacion del genero gotico a travers de la perception sensorial: La Consruccion de la hipotiposis en Aura de Carlos Fuentes.“Atenea 23:2 (2003): 73-85.
PEREZ, Genaro J. “La configuracion de elementos góticos en ‘Constancia,’ ‘Aura’ y ‘Tlactocatzine, del jardin de Flandes’ de Carlos Fuentes.” Hispania: A Journal Devoted to the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese (Lubbock, TX) 80:1 (1997): 9-20. [The Configuration of Gothic Elements in Carlos Fuentes’s Constancia, Aura, and Tlactocatzine, del jardin de Flandres.]
11.) Elena Garro (Mexico) (1922-1998)
STOLL, Anita. “La casa junto al rio de Elena Garro y el gótico femenino” (pp. 1011-16). Actes del X Congreso de la Asociacion Hispanicas. Barcelona: Promociones y Pubs. Universitarias, 1992. [Elena Garro’s La Casa Junto al Rio as Female Gothic.]
12.) Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) (1928- )
COLUMBUS, Claudette Kemper. “The Heir Must Die: One Hundred Years of Solitude as a Gothic Novel.” [GGII: 1324].
LLACER LLORCA, Eusebio. “Analisis microstructural de Los Pazos de Ulloa.” [GGII: 1339].
STEVENS, L. Robert and G. Roland VELA. “Jungle Gothic: Science, Myth, and Reality in One Hundred Years of Solitude.” [GGI: 1993].
13.) Carmen Martin-Gaite (Spain) (1925- )
DOYLE, Kathleen A. “Women Reading, Writing, and Remembering: The Construction of Carmen Martin Gaite’s Protagonists.” Dissertation Abstracts International 60:6 (1999): 2050 (University of Chicago).
14.) Adelaida García Morales (Puerto Rico) (1955- )
GLENN, Kathleen M. “Gothic Vision in Garcia Morales and Erice’s El Sur.” Letras Peninsulares 7:1 (1994): 239-50.
MAZQUIARÁN DE RODRIGUEZ, Mercedes. “Gothic Imagery, Dreams, and Vampirism: The Haunting Narrative of Adelaida Garcia Morales.” Monographic Review / Revista Monografica 8 (1992): 164-82.
SIX, Abigail Lee. The Gothic Fiction of Adelaida Garcia Morales: Haunting Words. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2005.
15.) Alvaro Mutis (Colombia) (1923- )
BUSTILLO, Carmen. “Alvaro Mutis: Parodia y au-toparodia en La mansion de Araucaima.” Thesaurus: Boletin del Instituto Caro y Cuervo (Bogota, Colombia) 49:1 (1994):142-65. [Parody and Self-Parody in La Mansion de Araucaima.]
16.) Silvina Ocampo (Argentina) (0000-000)
FANGMANN, Cristina I. “Modos del Exceso en dos Escritores Argentinos de Siglo XX: Silvina Ocampo y Nestor Perlongher.“ Dissertation Abstracts International 65:12 (2005): 4580 (New York University).
17.) Clemente Palma (Peru) (1872-1946)
MORA, Gabriela. Clemente Palma: El Modernismo en su versión decadente y gótica. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2000. [Clemente Palma: Modernism in Its Decadent and Gothic Version.]
MORA, Gabriela. “La sexualidad femenina en el modernisimo decadente: La narrativa de Clemente Palma” (pp. 23-37). Delmira Agustiniy y el modernismo nuevas propuestas de genero, ed. Tina Escaja. Rosario, Argentina: Viterbo, 2000. [Female Sexuality and Decadent Modernism: Clemente Palma’s Narrative.]
18.) Laura Alicia Palomares-Esquivel (Mexico) (1950- )
LAWLESS, Cecilia Elizabeth Burke. “Homeward Bound: A Study of Home in Hispanic and American Gothic Novels.” [GGII: 1336].
LAWLESS, Cecilia B. “Experimental Cooking in Como Agua para Chocolate.” Monographic Review/Revista Monografica 8 (1992): 261-72.
19.) Benito Perez-Galdos (Spain) (1843-1920)
FERNANDEZ. Francisco. “Gothic Manifestations in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Century Spanish Writers.“ Dissertation Abstracts International 65:5 (2004): 1769 (Indiana University).
LOPEZ, Sylvia E. “‘Ansias de lo sobrenatural’: The Otherworldly in Galdos.” Dissertation Abstracts International 56:5 (1995): 1810A (University of Chicago). [Anxie-ties of the Supernatural.]
LOPEZ, Sylvia. “The Gothic Tradition in Galdos’s La Sombra.” Hispania: A Journal Devoted to the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese 81:3 (1998): 509-18.
LOPEZ, Sylvia. “From Monstrous to Mythical: The Mother Figure in Galdos’s Casandra and El Caballero encantado.” Hispania: A Journal Devoted to the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese 85:4 (2002): 484-94.
20.) Agustin Perez Zaragoza y Godinez (Spain) (1876-1926)
HAIGHT, Rebecca. “How Gothic Is It? The Galeria fúnebre, Panoramic Setting, and Enlightenment Visuality.“ Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment 26 (2003): 115-29.
LOPEZ NAVIA, Santiago A. “Agustin Perez Zaragoza y Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. dos miradas a la 'hora fatal del crimen y del silencio.'“ (pp. 68-75). Estudios de Literatura Espanola de los Siglos XIX. y XX: Homenaje a Juan Maria Diez Taboada. Madrid: Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas. 1998.
MACIAS FERNANDEZ, Paz. “Horror at Home: The Transgressions of the Body Politic in Agustin Perez Zaragoza’s Galeria Funebre” (pp. 265-77). La Chispa ‘97: Selected Proceedings; Eighteenth Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literature, ed. Claire J. Paolini. New Orleans: Tulane University, 1997.
Fernando Pessoa (Portugal) (1888-1935)
SOUSA, Maria Leonor Machado de. Fernando Pessoa e la literatura de ficçao. Lisboa: Noværa, 1978. [Fernando Pessoa and the Literature of Fiction.]
21.) Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay) (1878-1937)
SCARI, Robert M. “Horacio Quiroga y los fenómenos parapsicológicos.” [GGII: 1348].
Mercè Rodoreda (Spain) (1909-1983)
PEREZ, Janet. “Gothic Spaces, Transgressions, and Apparitions in Mirall Trencat: Rodoreda’s Adaptation of the Paradigm” (pp. 85-97). Across the Border: Merce Rodoreda’s Fiction, ed. Kathleen McNerney. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 1994.
22.) Mário de Sá-Carneiro (Portugal) (1890-1916)
SOUSA, Maria Leonor Machado de. “O Elemento ‘Negro’ na novelistica de Mário de Sá-Carneiro.” [GGII: 1352].