Early 20th-Century Spanish Narrative: A Shift in Focus
Early 20th-Century Spanish Narrative
A Shift in Focus
The early 20th century marked a significant change in Spanish narrative. Novels like The Way of Perfection (Pio Baroja, 1902), Love and Pedagogy (Unamuno), The Will (Azorín), and the Sonatas (Valle-Inclán) shifted focus from external reality to the personal and intimate emotions of characters. This new narrative style presented several key features:
Key Features of the New Narrative
- Diminished Emphasis on Plot: The ‘how’ of storytelling became
The Shattered Mirror: A Novel of Family and Memory
The Shattered Mirror
Narrative Technique
In this 19th-century style narrative, an omniscient narrator, privy to all things, guides the story. This narrative omniscience allows for stylistic variations, giving momentum to the storytelling. Through the third person and past tense, events, thoughts, and memories are evoked. The author skillfully alternates between recounting events and transcribing conversations, showcasing editorial omniscience. A first-person monologue by a female character adds an
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Noucentisme: An Overview
Concept and Characteristics
Noucentisme was a Spanish intellectual and aesthetic renewal movement that sought a rational approach to art and culture. The Noucentista authors, mostly born around 1880, were active between the 1910s and 1930s. Key figures include Ortega y Gasset, Eugenio d’Ors, Jacinto Grau, Ramón Pérez de Ayala, and Gabriel Miró. While not a unified generation, they shared common traits:
- Strong intellectual and university education
- Europeanized perspective,
Children’s Literature: Western World & Oral Narrative
Theme 2: Children’s Literature in the Western World
1. The Classics
Adventure Novels:
Common denominator: action, discovery, and personal growth through the protagonists’ experiences. Various scenarios.
1. Travel Novels
- Daniel Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe”: A restless couple shipwrecks on a deserted island and establishes a system of organization similar to the origin of civilization. Directed towards the bourgeoisie.
- Robert Louis Stevenson: “Treasure Island” (model of seafaring and pirate tales) and “Dr.
Masaccio’s Holy Trinity: A Renaissance Masterpiece
The holy trinity church m1 masaccio novella. – Classification of the figurative wall painting work done in fresco in the church of St. Novella in Florence mm1 composition of the work ..
work composed of two parts, lowest in the q represents an open grave and more complex than with figures standing in an architectural dominant compositional lines are almost vertical and the symmetry horizaontales figures still are organized around central axis formed by the figure of god espitiru holy father and
Realism and Naturalism in 19th Century Spanish Literature
Coordination Classes
- Coordinated Copulative: (y, e, ni)
- Coordinated Adversative: (pero, mas, sino, aunque, sin embargo, no obstante)
- Coordinated Disjunctive: (o, u, ora)
- Coordinated Distributive: (tan pronto… como, unas veces… otras, bien… bien)
- Coordinated Explanatory: (es decir, esto es, o sea)
Realism
Realism was an artistic movement that sought to represent reality in accordance with the interests of bourgeois society. It developed in the second half of the 19th century, alongside the Industrial
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