Literature as Propaganda: Royal Influence and Social Control
Literature as Propaganda
The aim of this essay is to analyze the role of literature as a disseminator of information and publicity. Authors used literature as propaganda through strategies such as inserting opinions or extolling certain figures, such as the monarchy, in their works. Therefore, by disseminating these ideas they could influence and emphasize certain attitudes and behaviors. However, this process of influence was gradual, as it was necessary for the message to be ingrained in the receiver
Read MoreHenry James’s Daisy Miller: A Study of Societal Clash
Context
In the autumn of 1877, Henry James (1843–1916) heard a piece of gossip from a friend in Rome about a young American girl traveling with her wealthy but unsophisticated mother in Europe. The girl had met a handsome Italian of “vague identity” and no particular social standing and attempted to introduce him into the exclusive society of expatriate Americans in Rome. The incident had ended in a snub of some sort, a “small social check . . . of no great gravity,” the exact nature of
Read MoreHumanistic Texts: Features, Morphosyntax, and Lexicosemantics
Humanistic Texts: Features
Features:
- Tendency to abstraction, dealing with the realm of ideas and works that these generate.
- Speculative nature, universal laws are not experimentally verifiable. It is mainly based on pure theoretical thinking and logical reasoning.
- Opening the debate continued.
- Presence of subjective ideological and pragmatic aspects.
Functions of Language:
- Referential and metalinguistic functions are very relevant, as is the conative function (as categorical truths are not sought, the
Spanish Literature: Generation of ’98 Authors and Works
Miguel de Unamuno: A Literary Giant of ’98
Miguel de Unamuno stands as a prominent figure in the Generation of ’98, a group of Spanish writers, essayists, and poets profoundly affected by the moral, social, and political crisis in Spain. A complex and often contradictory writer, Unamuno’s life and work were marked by struggle, denial, and doubt. He excelled as a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, thinker, educator, and professor of classical literature in Salamanca.
Unamuno’s novels delve into
Read MoreModern Fantasy Literature: History and Subgenres
Modern Fantasy
Definition
Modern fantasy refers to the body of literature in which the events, the settings, or the characters are outside the realm of possibility. In these stories, animals talk, inanimate objects come to life, people are giants or thumb-sized, imaginary worlds are inhabited, and future worlds are explored. Modern fantasy is written by known authors, whereas traditional literature has no known author.
History
Imaginative literature did not appear until the 18th century. These stories
Read MoreModernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism in the Novel
This diversification of voices reflects an increasingly plural and multicultural society, where everyone has their own story. The novel increasingly combines different styles, genres, and approaches, making it difficult to separate writers into distinct movements.
The Last Modernist
Most major Modernist works were written between the two World Wars. However, Samuel Beckett, considered by many the last Modernist, published most of his novels after World War II. Written mostly in French and translated