Tirant lo Blanc: A 15th-Century Chivalric Novel Analysis
Tirant lo Blanc: A Summary
The narrative of Tirant lo Blanc unfolds across several key sections:
- I-XCVII: Courtly conflicts involving knights.
- XCVIII-CXIV: A skilled admiral is drawn to the knight.
- CXV-CCXCVII: The knight becomes a bold leader, victorious against the Turks, and falls in love with Carmesina.
- CCXCVIII-CDVI: The hero leads North African troops and facilitates the conversion of Muslims.
- CDVIII-CDLXXXVII: The knight restores the Byzantine Empire, marries Carmesina, and becomes emperor until
Spanish Realism and Naturalism: Authors and Key Works
Realism in 19th-Century Spanish Literature
Realism is an objective representation of reality. Its birth is closely linked to the rise of the bourgeoisie and the new urban society that formed as a result of industrial development. The novel enjoyed some popularity and became the genre in which realism reached its highest achievements.
The Transformation of Literature: Literature did not remain immune to these changes. In the realm of ideas, writers focused on society, objectively observing and describing
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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
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