Galician Poetry: 1975 to 1990s – Key Movements
Galician Poetry from 1975 to the 1990s
1975: A Profound Renewal
The year 1975 marked a profound renewal in international poetry, with an outbreak of feminine writing and various authors in full creative activity.
Four Key Inflection Points
a) Consolidation of Social Realism (Late 1960s – “Novos”):
- Work emerged during a time of intense anti-Franco struggle.
- Implementation of left-wing nationalism.
- Themes of complaint, struggle for language, national oppression, and the desire for individual and collective
Spanish Literature: 1902 to the Avant-Garde Movements
Generation of 27: Key Characteristics and Stages
Characteristics of the Generation of 27
The Generation of 27 rejected Modernist traits. The group was characterized by members with a strong university background, often from affluent families, who held progressive and left-leaning views. Their poems were frequently published in magazines. Key figures like Pedro Salinas and Gerardo Diego formed influential groups.
Influences
- Popular poetry
- Cultured poetry of Góngora
- Bécquer
- Spanish and European poets
Stages
Avant-
Baroque Literature: Culteranismo, Conceptismo, and Key Genres
Summary of the Baroque: Culteranismo and Conceptismo
They see a deep vital skepticism that causes a flight in two directions: the conceptual and the cultured Renaissance. Both upset the balance and come to similar literary devices: the device and the difficulty in style, exaggeration and contrast, the challenge of surprise…
Culteranismo
Maximum Representative: Luis de Góngora. It seeks to create a cultured poetic language of its own. It tends to the formal beauty and the colorful sensorial brilliance.
Read MoreFormal Letters, Language Standardization, and Post-War Narrative
The Menu
There are two types of formal letters:
- Administrative letters, where there is no trust relationship.
- Personal letters, which target a relationship of trust, expressing experiences or states of mind subjectively.
Features of Formal Letters
- Date: Independent and on a separate line. A comma is placed between the location and the date (e.g., Xativa, 23 February 2009).
- After the greeting, a comma or colon is used, and the next line starts with a capital letter.
- Farewell formulas end with a comma if
Languages and Dialects of Spain: A Linguistic Journey
Languages and Dialects of Spain
The Murcian Dialect
The Murcian dialect takes features of Valencian and Andalusian. The most characteristic features of Murcian are:
- Loss of intervocalic d, b, g: Kaéza for cabeza (head)
- Dealing with r and l when followed: Amal for amar (to love)
- Diminutive suffix -ico, -iqui becomes: paharíkio
The Canary Dialect
Canary traits are: “It has many similarities with the Andalusian: lisp, aspiration of the j, r and l confusion, etc.”
- Final consonants tend to disappear: arbo
- The
Romantic Drama, Realism, and Key Spanish Authors
Characteristics of Romantic Drama
Romantic drama is characterized by the following:
- Legendary themes: Chivalry and other legendary themes are common, always presented dramatically.
- Protagonist’s fate: The protagonist is marked by a strange and mysterious destiny, often boasting gallantry and cynicism.
- Atmosphere: Abundant sepulchral night scenes, challenges, and suicides.
- Rejection of classical rules: Rejection of the classical rules of the three unities (time, place, and action).
- Mixing of genres: A