Catalan Literature: 16th to 18th Century Renaissance

Catalan Literature: 16th to 18th Century

Throughout the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, there were several cosmetic changes: Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, and Illustration. The sixteenth-century Renaissance in theater saw the growth of acts with a sacramental character, including floats for the exaltation of the Eucharist. The prose includes colloquia on the famous city of Tortosa (1557) by Christopher Despuig (1510-1574). In medieval poetry, models alternated with new attitudes

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Spanish Realism and Naturalism: Key Authors and Characteristics

Spanish Realism and Naturalism

In the mid-nineteenth century, Realism began to develop in Europe. This movement is characterized by a reaction against the excesses of Romanticism and the abuse of subjectivity and imagination. Naturalism was born in France, seeking to explain the causes of human behavior and taking into account new scientific ideas about human beings. Realism in Spain is based on the literary tradition, analyzing and dissecting contemporary reality. As for Spanish Naturalism, Emilia

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Lincoln’s Inaugural Address: Key Questions and Answers

Key Questions and Answers on Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address

According to Lincoln, what issue occupied people’s thoughts and attention at the time of his first inaugural address?

A Possible Civil War

What is the peculiar and powerful interest that Lincoln says was somehow the cause of the war?

Slaves and the people who owned them

According to Lincoln, what still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation?

The Present Civil War

What does Lincoln say or imply that he wants? (Choose

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Key Spanish Authors and Literary Movements of the 19th Century

Mariano José de Larra possessed a critical personality and a reformist attitude, embracing Europeanization and the struggle for freedom. His gifts included tolerance and an ironic observation of reality. His works, particularly his artículos de costumbres, critically examine various aspects of Spanish society and customs of his time. In works like “Vuelva usted mañana,” his political articles demonstrate unwavering commitment to freedom and tolerance. His literary criticism, such as “El elogio,

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Francisco Goya: Life and Artistic Evolution

Introduction

Born in Fuentedetodos, Francisco Goya’s artistic journey began in the workshop of the painter José Luzán. He married the sister of the painter Francisco Bayeu and became his young disciple. He traveled to Italy and soon moved to Madrid as a painter for the Royal Tapestry Factory. He became a royal painter and a member of the Academy of San Fernando. After the War of Independence, his work reflected the turmoil of the time, oscillating between anti-French patriotism and his pro-French

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Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw: British Drama Revival

Oscar Wilde & George Bernard Shaw: British Drama Revival

Introduction to Wilde and Shaw in British Drama

British drama of the early 19th century was marked by mediocrity and decay. Victorian strict morality and the predominance of the novel as the literary genre par excellence, together with the lack of royal patronage to theatre (unlike in other periods of English literature), were factors that didn’t favour the development of the dramatic genre at the time. The late 19th century, however, witnessed

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