Grammatical Analysis: Gender, Number, Adjectives, Pronouns, and Periphrasis
Grammatical Analysis
Gender and Number
Gender:
- Motivated: Male/Female distinctions (e.g., poet/poetess, bear/osa).
- Unmotivated: No inherent sex (e.g., olive, guitar, objects).
- Common Gender: Same form for male and female (e.g., the athlete).
- Epicene Gender: One form for both sexes (e.g., the eagle).
- Ambiguous Gender: Can be masculine or feminine (e.g., the sugar).
Number: Singular (sg) and Plural (pl). Some words are always singular (singulariam tantum) like thirst, complexion, adolescence. Others are always
Read MoreCatalan Dialects: Characteristics and Lexicon
Northwestern Catalan
- The intervocalic /-d-/ usually becomes silent, especially in the suffixes -ada, -ador.
- Use of possessive forms: lo, la, los, les (the); ma (my), ta (your), sa (his/her).
- Demonstratives have three degrees of deixis: este/esta (this), eixe/això (that), aquell/aquella (that over there).
- The first person singular of the present indicative does not take -o.
- The imperfect subjunctive uses the desinences -és, -esses, -éssem, -ésseu, -essen.
- Frequent use of diminutives.
- Own lexicon:
- Creïlles
Spanish Novel Trends in the Last 30 Years
Significant Aspects of the Spanish Novel in the Last 30 Years
In sum, two are the most significant aspects of the Spanish novel in the last thirty years:
a) The unifying character. It hosts almost all the trends, patterns, speeches, issues, experiences, and personal concerns.
b) The individuality. Each writer will choose the direction that is most appropriate to find a style with which to express his personal world and his particular vision of reality.
So we can say that in recent decades live:
a) Important
Read MoreManrique’s Couplets on Father’s Death: Structure, Style, Themes
Structure of *Couplets on the Death of His Father*
The *Couplets on the Death of His Father*, consisting of forty stanzas called *manriqueñas* couplets, are broken into two parts. The *manriqueñas* couplets consist of 12 lines that follow the outline 8a8b4c8a8b4c8d8e4f8d8e4f. The first 24 stanzas have a general nature. The remaining stanzas exalt the figure of the father, Don Rodrigo Manrique.
Style
The style employed by Jorge Manrique is highly innovative in relation to any previous literary tradition.
Read MoreMagical Realism in Latin American Literature: Isabel Allende
Magical Realism in Latin American Literature
Magical Realism was born with the tales of Horacio Quiroga in the early twentieth century, but it was not until the 1960s and 1970s that several Latin American Boom writers used it as a hallmark of their novels. Gabriel García Márquez, with One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Alejo Carpentier, with The Lost Steps, are its greatest exponents.
Introducing the Fantastic into the Everyday
It is a narrative mechanism used to introduce unusual or fantastic events
Read MoreRomance, Prose, and Drama in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Classification of Romance
The most important are grouped into:
- Historicals: Inspired by a historical fact and would be a concrete event composed at a time.
- Epic or Literary: Have a literary source, whatever it focuses on, be it many of the same characters and events. Songs of Feat.
- Novel: Creations of characters include varied: love romance, adventure, mystery, or those based on legends.
Prose and Drama in the Middle Ages
- The Matchmaker:
- Didactic prose of moral character emphasizes The Corbaccio, a work