Miguel de Cervantes and Spanish Baroque Literature
Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
Poetry
- Minor poems: ballads, sonnets
- Major poems: epistle to Mateo Vazquez, song of Calliope, Parnassus trip
Theater
- First period: The Numancia, The Treatment of Algiers
- Second period:
- Eight plays: The Gallant Spanish, The Great Sultana, Baths of Algiers, The House of Jealousy, The Labyrinth of Love, Fun, Happy the Ruffian, Pedro de Urdemalas
- Eight Interludes: The Cave of Salamanca, The Jealous Old Man, Keeping Careful, The Altarpiece of the Wonders, The Judge in Divorce,
Understanding Dramatic Genres: Tragedy, Comedy, and More
Dramatic Genres: An Overview
Tragicomedy
Tragicomedy presents a tragic conflict that results in a high heroism linked to ethical values. The hero must overcome an adverse fate. Its components are:
- Recklessness or arrogance of the hero
- Suffering of the hero
- Purifying of the passions
Comedy
Comedy approaches the story from a comic perspective, highlighting human imperfections naturally. The characters are often the same or worse than real people.
Tragicomedy (Revisited)
Tragicomedy mixes comedy and tragedy.
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The Sixties: A New Historic Turn
The early sixties marked a period of “desarrollismo” under Franco, where technocrats played a key role in promoting liberalization measures that led to economic growth.
Historical Realism in Literature
Writers adopted a more realistic approach to depicting the country’s social reality, focusing on the living conditions of the working classes and using language closer to everyday speech. The intention was to denounce perceived injustices.
Poetry
The crisis of symbolist
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- In Doña Perfecta, Galdós studies the fictional city of Orbajosa, steeped in a close-minded tradition of inaction. Progressive engineer Pepe Rey, naively planning to marry Doña Perfecta, the woman who gives the book its title, finds himself entangled in a series of intrigues orchestrated by the city’s reactionary clergy. The play ends tragically.
- Marianela tells the story of a poor, deformed, and blind orphan who falls in love with the young bourgeois man she guides. Set in a mining town, the
Fitness, Poetry, and Basque Culture: A Brief Overview
Fitness Book: Register
Depending on the characteristics of the situation, the sender needs to know how to select the speech. Who, where, with whom, what… there is always some communication with those we create in our state and jarduna. Hitz change the way we do; we have in front of children or the banks or the main diren. We are in a tavern, hospital, or non-important issues for funtsik we are speaking, to express feelings or ditugun. Hiru new record levels: Level-1 culture or received. Garrantzia.
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Item 4: Linguistic Varieties and Norms
1. Types of Varieties:
- Historical Variety: Changes that occur over time.
- Geographical Variety: Changes produced according to geographical area.
- Social Variety: Determined by culture, gender, age, etc.
- Register Variety: Variety of an individual speaker.
2. The Rule:
In a linguistic community, the uses of certain groups have more prestige and are modeled on the correct usage of language. All of these uses constitute the norm and are the basis of the standard language.
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