Lazarillo de Tormes: A Realistic 16th-Century Novel

It is a realistic narrative; facts are recounted as if they had occurred. The border between reality and fiction fades, taking an important step towards the creation of the modern novel by proposing that the work be read as if it were true. It is the starting point of the European realist novel. The characters change throughout the circumstances of their lives, and the protagonist changes from the beginning to the end of the work.

Structure

Foreword and 7 chapters. The latter reveals that the work

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Modernist and 98 Generation Poetry: Features and Trends

The Poetry of Modernism

The poetry of Modernism is an aesthetic renovation of poetic language. It incorporates features from French poetry. Parnassianism emphasizes art for art’s sake, a taste for refined and formal perfection. Symbolism embraces the love of music and the incorporation of symbols, including synesthesia. These sensorial images, introduced by Rubén Darío, are characterized by the pursuit of absolute beauty to escape from everyday reality.

Key Features of Modernist Poetry

  • The poet feels
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Filmmaking: Script, Shooting, Editing, and Key Concepts

Filmmaking: From Script to Screen

Film: The art of representing moving images on a screen through photography. The process of making a film consists of three phases:

Scriptwriting

To develop a script, follow these guidelines: select an idea, write the plot, develop the argument, create the treatment, and write the literary script with structured scenes. Finally, develop the technical script. The script usually presents two columns.

Shooting Angle

In filming a movie, the director will decide how to resolve

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Psychomotor Structure and Human Development

Psychomotor Structure

Structure: The way in which different parts of a set are arranged together, are supportive, and only become meaningful in relation to the whole.

Psychomotor: Refers to a holistic concept of the subject. It deals with the interaction established between knowledge, emotion, body, movement, and its importance for the development of the person and their ability to express themselves and relate to the world that surrounds them.

Psychomotor Structure: The complex relationships that

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Perception: Theories and Apparent Movement

Theories of perception


1) Theory of inference. It has its origins in the British empiricist philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Hobbes, Locke or Hume, who argued that the mind at birth is a blank slate (tabula rasa) and that knowledge is acquired only by experience sensitive and the association of ideas. His greatest example is H. Von Helmholtz, who argued that perception is an inferential process based on (deductive) in which, through past experience, unconsciously infer the

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Velázquez: Master of Spanish Baroque Painting Techniques

Velázquez: A Master of Spanish Painting

Velázquez is considered the most important and brilliant figure of Spanish painting. Born in Seville, he soon moved to Madrid, where he was appointed court painter to Philip IV. He made trips to Italy and represents the culmination of the formal and technical achievements of modern painting. His key characteristics include:

  • He is the most genuine representative of Baroque naturalistic realism. He developed a balanced and serene naturalism, focusing on everyday
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