Regenerationism and the Generation of ’98
Regenerationism
Regenerationism was a political ideology that sought to revitalize Spanish society and address political corruption through peaceful means, rather than armed revolution. It emphasized practicality and utility over aesthetics. Joaquín Costa, a key figure in the movement, spearheaded its propaganda from 1860 onwards. His major work, “Oligarchy and Caciques,” critiques the political system of the time.
The Generation of ’98
The Generation of ’98 was the first generation of journalists
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Literary Texts
Literary language deviates from standard language to create beauty and surprise, capturing the reader’s attention. It achieves this through content, form, musicality, and literary resources. The concept of literary language emerged in the early 20th century with Russian formalism.
Features of Literary Texts
- Functional: Focuses on aesthetic pleasure and multiple meanings.
- Automatization and Bypass: Employs innovative language, diverging from common usage.
- Poetic Function: Aims to produce
Description and Dialogue in Literature: A Guide
Description in Literature
Definition
Description portrays reality, whether concrete or abstract, using words. It depicts objects, places, environments, people, processes, concepts, and emotions. Typically, descriptions are static, capturing a moment in time. However, descriptions of actions or processes can introduce dynamism.
Process
- Observation and Selection: The sender carefully observes and selects significant details of the subject to be described, considering the receiver’s knowledge and the intended
Advertising and Text Cohesion
1. Text Cohesion
Textual cohesion is the property that, after several mechanisms of relationship, forms the plot and reveals the syntactic relations between the various phrases in the text.
The Mechanisms of Cohesion
Textual cohesion is achieved by applying, at the time of writing, several relationships, including the following:
- The Lexical Relationship: This resource establishes a semantic link between two or more lexical items.
- Repetition of a word or expression
- Use of a synonym or an antonym to refer
Catalan Literature: Renaissance to Modernism
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1) For the romanticism that favored the emergence of the Renaissance?
Because their preference for popular poetry, his exaltation and defense of the personality and the freedom of peoples, was a time when the Renaissance were more field conducive to raise their problems and where historic Catalan literature had its classics.
2) What other factors influenced the emergence and development of the Renaissance?
demographic expansion and improvement of farming techniques produced the first capital
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Descriptive Text
Painting made with words. It distinguishes the technical description from the objective or subjective description of a landscape, an object, a person, an animal, time, feelings, etc., with an aesthetic function.
Procedures and Features
- Verb forms: The most commonly used are the present and the imperfect past.
- Names predominate over verbs.
- Many nouns (widely adjectival) and adjectives stimulate the senses, complementing substantive information with expressive nuance. Epithets.
- Attributive