Michael Predmore, Professor

Building 260, Room 225
650 723 1920
predmore@stanford.edu

A recipient of the Fulbright, Guggenheim, ACLS, and NEH fellowships, as well as fellowships from the Wisconsin and Stanford Humanities Centers, Michael P. Predmore has published several books and numerous articles on twentieth-century Spanish and Latin American literature. Among his best known books are: La obra en prosa de Juan Ramón Jiménez (1966, 1975), La poesía hermética de Juan Ramón Jiménez (1973), Una Espana joven en la poesía de Antonio Machado (1981), and scholarly editions of Platero y yo and Diario de un poeta reciencasado, both published by Cátedra.

Interests

Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Peninsula Spanish literature; modern trends and developments in early 20th century Spanish poetry (A. Machado, J.R. Jiménez, García Lorca); modern Hispanic poetry with a view toward transattlantic influenes and trends (Martí, Darío, V. Huidobro, G. Mistral, Pablo Neruda, César Vallejo); the theater of Valle-Inclán and Lorca; the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath: the literature inspired by this period of Spanish history (1931-1950); 19th century Spanish literature (Larra, Espronceda, Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro, Galdós).

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Spanish Languages and Literature, 1965

M.A., University of Wisconsin, Spanish Languages and Literature, 1961

B.A., Swarthmore College, 1959

Current Courses

SpanLit 114N. Freshman Seminar: Lyric poetry.
SpanLit 222. The Problem of two Spains: Literature and Society in 19th-Century Spain.
SpanLit 223. Literature and Society During the Period of Restoration Spain (1875-1930)
SpanLit 225E. Ramón del Valle-Inclán and Federico García Lorca: Theater, Self, Society, and Politics in Early Twentieth-Century Spain.

Previous Courses

SpanLit 136. Introduction to Modern Spanish Literature
SpanLit 165Q. Machado, Jiminez, Lorca.
SpanLit 224. The Literature of the Spanish Republic: The Spanish Civil War and Aftermat
SpanLit 151. An introduction to modern Peninsular Spanish literature.
SpanLit 336. Major trends in early 20th-century Spanish poetry: Machado, Jiménez, Lorca.

Selected Publications

"La herencia europea romantica y simbolista en la obra de Antonio Machado y Juan Ramon Jimenez," Unidad (Cuadernos de textos y estudios juanramonianos), Graciela Palau de Nemes, ed. (Moguer, January 2001), 41-56.
Una Espana joven en la poesia de Antonio Machado. Madrid: Insula, 1981
La poesía hermética de Juan Ramón Jiménez (1973)
La obra en prosa de Juan Ramón Jiménez (1966, 1975)

Current Projects

Professor Predmore has just completed, in collaboration with Hugh A. Harter, a translation and critical bilingual edition of Jiménez's Diario de un poeta reciencasado, recently accepted for publication by the Associated University Presses. Professor Predmore is currently working on book-length studies of Machado's Campos de
Castilla, and Valle-Inclán's Comedias bárbaras. Future research interests: the "artículos de costumbreof Mariano José de Larra and the novels of Benito Pérez Galdos.