Baroque Literature: Culteranismo, Conceptismo, and Key Genres
Summary of the Baroque: Culteranismo and Conceptismo
They see a deep vital skepticism that causes a flight in two directions: the conceptual and the cultured Renaissance. Both upset the balance and come to similar literary devices: the device and the difficulty in style, exaggeration and contrast, the challenge of surprise…
Culteranismo
Maximum Representative: Luis de Góngora. It seeks to create a cultured poetic language of its own. It tends to the formal beauty and the colorful sensorial brilliance.
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The Menu
There are two types of formal letters:
- Administrative letters, where there is no trust relationship.
- Personal letters, which target a relationship of trust, expressing experiences or states of mind subjectively.
Features of Formal Letters
- Date: Independent and on a separate line. A comma is placed between the location and the date (e.g., Xativa, 23 February 2009).
- After the greeting, a comma or colon is used, and the next line starts with a capital letter.
- Farewell formulas end with a comma if
Languages and Dialects of Spain: A Linguistic Journey
Languages and Dialects of Spain
The Murcian Dialect
The Murcian dialect takes features of Valencian and Andalusian. The most characteristic features of Murcian are:
- Loss of intervocalic d, b, g: Kaéza for cabeza (head)
- Dealing with r and l when followed: Amal for amar (to love)
- Diminutive suffix -ico, -iqui becomes: paharíkio
The Canary Dialect
Canary traits are: “It has many similarities with the Andalusian: lisp, aspiration of the j, r and l confusion, etc.”
- Final consonants tend to disappear: arbo
- The
Romantic Drama, Realism, and Key Spanish Authors
Characteristics of Romantic Drama
Romantic drama is characterized by the following:
- Legendary themes: Chivalry and other legendary themes are common, always presented dramatically.
- Protagonist’s fate: The protagonist is marked by a strange and mysterious destiny, often boasting gallantry and cynicism.
- Atmosphere: Abundant sepulchral night scenes, challenges, and suicides.
- Rejection of classical rules: Rejection of the classical rules of the three unities (time, place, and action).
- Mixing of genres: A
Lyrical Poetry: Key Elements and Literary Devices
Genre: Lyrical Poetry
Elements of a Lyrical Creation
Lyrical Subject: A circumstance or being causing a certain mood in the poet.
Temple of Mind: The emotion or mood of the poet.
Reason Lyric: The concept or the idea present in a certain poetic composition. This idea or concept represents the most important message, usually being an abstract noun, such as sadness, love, loneliness, homesickness, anxiety, etc. In other words, it refers to the feeling that arises from mood and circumstance.
Lyric Speaker:
Read MoreMetamorphosis by Kafka: Character & Family Dynamics
The Metamorphosis: Character Evolution and Family
Gregor Samsa’s Transformation
Kafka’s characters often grapple with profound loneliness, devoid of the love and connection experienced by others. In *The Metamorphosis*, this isolation manifests in a cruel destiny: a sensitive man transforms into something repulsive, even to his own family. This is the fate of Gregor Samsa, who awakens to find himself transformed into an insect, retaining human qualities yet unable to communicate. This metamorphosis
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