Hispanic Studies

Biography

Terence O'Reilly, BA, PhD (Nottingham)

Associate Professor of Spanish

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

• The medieval lyric, popular and courtly
• The poetic traditions of the Golden Age
• The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola
• Lazarillo de Tormes and the literature of satire
• The influence of Erasmus in Spain
• The writings of Santa Teresa de Avila and San Juan de La Cruz
• The prose and poetry of Fray Luis de León.

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PUBLICATIONS

Books

The Philosophy of Love in Spanish Literature (1480-1680) by A.A. Parker, edited by Terence O'Reilly (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1985). Translation: La filosofía del amor en la literatura española (1480-1680). (Madrid: Castalia, 1986).

From Ignatius Loyola to John of the Cross. Spirituality and Literature in Sixteenth-Century Spain. (London: Variorum, 1995).

Hidden in God. Essays and Talks on St Jane Frances de Chantal by Elizabeth Stopp, edited by Terence O'Reilly (Philadelphia: St Joseph's University Press, 1999).

Jorge de Montemayor, Omelías sobre Miserere mei Deus, edited with an introduction and notes by Terence O'Reilly (Durham: University of Durham, 2000).

Adrien Gambart's Emblem Book. The Life of St Francis de Sales in Symbols, by Elisabeth Stopp, edited by Terence O'Reilly (Philadelphia: St Joseph's University Press, 2006).

The Bible in the Literary Imagination of the Spanish Golden Age. Images and Texts from Columbus to Velázquez (Philadelphia: St Joseph's University Press). Forthcoming.

Articles in Journals 

`The structural unity of the Exercitatorio de la vida spiritual', Studia Monastica 15 (1973), 287-324.

`St Ignatius Loyola and Spanish Erasmianism', Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 43 (1974), 301-321.

`The Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola and the Exercitatorio de la vida spiritual', Studia Monastica 16 (1974), 301-323.

`Erasmus, Ignatius Loyola and Orthodoxy', Journal of Theological Studies, 30 (1979), 115-127.

`The Sonnets of Fernando and Fénix in Calderón's El príncipe constante', Forum for Modern Language Studies, 16 (1980), 350-357.

`Saint Ignatius Loyola and Castles in Palestine', Modern Language Notes, 96 (1981), 421-425.

`The Literary and Devotional Context of the Pastorcico', Forum for Modern Langauge Studies, 18 (1982), 363-370.

`The Ode to Francisco Salinas', in What's Past is Prologue: A Collection of Essays in Honour of L.J. Woodward, edited by S. Barcarisse et al. (Edinburgh, 1984), 107-113.

'Discontinuity in Lazarillo de Tormes: the problem of Tratado five', Journal of Hispanic Philology 10 (1986), 141-149. 

`Ignatius of Loyola and the Counter-Reformation: The Hagiographic Tradition', Heythrop Journal, 31 (1990), 439-470.

`The Spiritual Exercises and the Crisis of Medieval Piety', The Way Supplement, 70 (1991), 101-113.

`San Juan de la Cruz y la lectura de la Biblia', Insula 537 (September 1991), 25-27.

`Courtly Love and Mysticism in Spanish Poetry of the Golden Age', Journal of Hispanic Research 1 (1992), 53-76.

`The Scriptural Scholarship of the Early Spanish Jesuits - A Survey', Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies 4 (1996), 135-143.

'La figura de Aminadab en los escritos de San Juan de la Cruz', San Juan de la Cruz 31-32 (2003), 187-196.

'The literary context of a bodegón of Velázquez: La cena de Emaús', Hispanic Research Journal. Special Issue on the Visual Arts. December 2007. Forthcoming.

Articles and Chapters in Books

`The Erasmianism of Lazarillo de Tormes', in Essays in Honour of Robert Brian Tate, edited by R.A. Cardwell (Nottingham, 1984), 91-100.

`The Wit of a letrilla by Góngora: no son todos ruiseñores', in Readings in Spanish and Portuguese Poetry for Geoffrey Connell, edited by N.G. Round and D.G. Walters (Glasgow, 1985), 161-168.

`St John of the Cross and the Traditions of Monastic Exegesis', Leeds Papers on Saint John of the Cross, edited by Margaret A. Rees (Leeds, 1991), 105-126.

`Melchor Cano and the Spirituality of St Ignatius Loyola', in Ignacio de Loyola y su tiempo, edited by Juan Plazaola (Bilbao, 1992), 369-380.

`San Juan de la Cruz y la lectura de la Biblia: el romance Encima de las corrientes', in Actas del Congreso Internacional Sanjuanista (Valladolid, 1993), 221-231.

`The Image of the Garden in La vida retirada', in Belief and Unbelief in Hispanic Literature, edited by Helen Wing and John Jones (Warminster, 1995), 9-18.

`El Cántico espiritual y la interpretación mística del Cantar de los Cantares', in Hermenéutica y mística: San Juan de la Cruz, edited by José Ángel Valente and José Lara Garrido (Madrid, 1995), 271-280.

`Meditation and Contemplation: Monastic Spirituality in Early Sixteenth-Century Spain', in Faith and Fanaticism. Religious Fervour in Early Modern Spain, edited by L. Twomey (Aldershot, 1997), 37-57.

`The Religious Context of Montemayor's Omelías sobre Miserere mei, Deus', in Crown, Court and Church in Golden Age Iberia, edited by Margaret A. Rees (Leeds, 1997), 45-68.

`Jorge de Montemayor and the Poetry of the Psalms', in Convivium. Celebratory Essays for Ronald Cueto, edited by John Macklin and Margaret A. Rees (Leeds, 1997), 1-18.

`El tránsito del temor servil al temor filial en los Ejercicios Espirituales de san Ignacio', in Las fuentes de los Ejercicios Espirituales de San Ignacio, edited by Juan Plazaola (Bilbao, 1998), 223-240.

'The figure of Elisa in the eclogues of Garcilaso', in Spanish Poetry of the Golden Age. Papers of a Colloquium held at University College Cork, edited by Stephen Boyd and Jo Richardson (Manchester: Manchester Spanish and Portuguese Studies, 2002), 85-96.

'Golden Age Studies: Spain and Spanish America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries', in The Companion to Hispanic Studies, edited by Catherine Davies (London: Arnold, 2002), 50-67.

Introduction to Denis the Carthusian. Spiritual Writings, translated by Ide M. Ní Riain (Dublin: Four Courts, 2005), ix-xiv.

'Temor', in Diccionario de Espiritualidad Ignaciana, edited by José García de Castro, S.J. (Bilbao: Mensajero). In press.

'St John of the Cross and the translation of Psalm 62:2', in Latin and the Vernacular in Renaissance Spain, edited by Barry Taylor and Alejandro Coroleu (Manchester: Manchester Spanish and Portuguese Studies). In press.

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COURSES TAUGHT/CO-ORDINATED

First Year

HS1003 An Introduction to Hispanic Studies  (with staff, Dept of Hispanic Studies)

Second Year

HS2006 An Introduction to Golden Age Literature (with Mr Stephen Boyd ) 

HS2044 Golden Age Art and Literature (with Mr Stephen Boyd) 

Final Year

HS3001 Advanced Spanish Language Course  (with staff, Dept of Hispanic Studies)

HS3002 The Poetry of Góngora and his Contemporaries  (with Mr Stephen Boyd)

HS3044 Golden Age Drama  (with Mr Stephen Boyd & Prof. David Mackenzie)

HS3055 The Poetry of Luis de León