Galician Authors: Méndez Ferrín, Casares, Ferreiro, and Novoneyra
Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín
His Work
From a literary standpoint, Méndez Ferrín is a fundamental author of current Portuguese literature, both in poetry and narrative.
His Narrative Work
As a narrator, he writes stories and novels. His early works are within the New Galician Narrative, influenced by European and American literature.
His narrative work revolves around three themes:
- A fantastic theme, recreating characters and environments of the Matter of Britain and the Arthurian legends.
- The exploration
Late 20th and Early 21st Century Poetry: Trends and Authors
The Poetry of the Late 20th and Early 21st Century
The late twentieth and early twenty-first century is characterized by a genuine poetic expression and evolution of a genre that leads to the decay of the previous social realism and diversification thematic and formal.
Poetry before 1976 centered on reclamation of standardization of language and the conquest of areas of use. Two basic aspects are clear antecedents of poetic production later are the teaching of the elders and the decline of poetry
Read MorePhonological Shifts in English: Vowels, Consonants, Stress
The Great Vowel Shift
The Great Vowel Shift was the greatest and most important phonological change in the history of English. Yet, Old English spelling was maintained because printers based spelling on medieval manuscripts, not on the new pronunciation. For example:
- Middle English: feet [e]
- Modern English: feet [i:]
Learned men preferred an archaic spelling: ‘y’ was used as ‘th’:
- ‘y’ as an abbreviation of ‘that’
- ‘ye’ as an abbreviation of ‘the’
- Example: Ye Olde Shoppe
‘i’ as a vowel and ‘j’ as a consonant
Read MoreMastering Punctuation and Accentuation in Spanish
Punctuation
Punctuation aims to help continue the thought of writing, stating in writing pauses, intonation, and emphasis. You cannot write without punctuation or use the signs without knowing their value and meaning, so it was deemed necessary to make a sketch of the most used.
- Comma (,) represents the shortest pause. It is used to:
- Separate phrases, words, or sentences in a series of similar elements.
- Separate the vocative from the rest of the sentence.
- Separate anything set in front of the subject.
Understanding Spanish Grammar: Parts of Speech
Spanish Grammar: Key Components
Interjection
An interjection often expresses emotion or surprise. Examples include: wham bam sounds bang, ehh antecion call hi, moods ah ay bah.
Adverb
An adverb modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb. It often refers to related circumstances.
- Place: there
- Time: now, después, then
- Manner: well, good, bad
- Amount: far, short, less, but
- Affirmation: if, also, of course
- Negation: not, tampoco
- Question: perhaps, perhaps, perhaps
- Interrogative: where, when, as
Preposition
A preposition
Read More19th-Century Spanish Realism and Naturalism: Authors and Characteristics
Realism: Origins and Evolution
Realism arose in France in the first half of the 19th century, immersed in Romanticism. It even started with authors such as Balzac and Stendhal. It developed as an independent movement with Flaubert in the context of an urban, industrial society, with the bourgeois class established.
In Spain, the realist movement began around 1870, after the “Glorious Revolution,” and had its heyday in the 1880s. It was influenced by Romantic genres, such as the historical novel and
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