Spanish Baroque Literature: Concepts, Poetry, and Prose
Spanish Baroque Literature
3. Assessment
The Concept and Culteranismo
a) The Concept
The concept is more concerned with content and resorted to using antithesis, paradoxes, puns, metaphors, and sound effects.
b) The Culteranismo
The culteranismo pursued beauty and expression through form.
Topics of the Baroque
There are two main themes:
The great Renaissance themes: love, nature, mythology.
Moralizing themes, which reflected on the brevity of life and earthly things.
The Renaissance themes developed in accordance
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