Spanish Ballads, La Celestina, and Renaissance Literature

The Spanish Romance (El Romance)

Short compositions formed by a variable number of eight-syllable verses (octosyllables) with assonant rhyme in the even-numbered lines and no rhyme in the odd-numbered lines. They are anonymous epic poems, considered works of collective authorship. Among their most important features are:

  • Brevity and simplicity
  • Direct presentation of reality
  • Abundant use of repetition
  • Predominance of action over description
  • Presence of rapid dialogues

La Celestina

In 1499, the Comedia de

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Lorca, Alberti: Love, Death, and Social Themes in Poetry

Love, Death, and Social Themes in Poetry

Death. Failure can lead to love-death, whose presence is a mystery. Man goes to it, inevitably fulfilling their destiny.

The Children

This stage of life is the age of innocence.

The Social

It manifests in two ways: first, moral impositions, which thwart created lives; and secondly, a reality that always punishes the helpless. The style has a role reminiscent of the words, the presence of symbols, the visionary image, the impressionist trend, and the importance

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The Art of Rhetoric: Ancient Masters and Techniques

Speaking: Character: Literary genre written in prose, conceived as the art of speaking well, with correction, persuasively, and convincingly, linked to freedom of expression. Theoretical rhetoric is the art of discourse. The Greeks and Romans achieved high levels in this art, combining functionality and aesthetics. In Greece, schools of rhetoric opened, the Asian (exuberant style, long periods) and Attic (austere and sober). The main scenarios which allowed the development of this genre were the

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Understanding Avant-Garde Literature: Movements and Authors

Avant-Garde Literature

New Art: Avant-garde literature is a form of expression that aims to break the formal and aesthetic mold of previous artistic trends.

Avant-Garde: These are artistic movements that sought to radically break with all previous aesthetic canons, provoking reflection on the artwork.

Current Cutting-Edge Movements

Futurism

The First Futurist Manifesto was published by the Italian poet Marinetti. Its favorite subjects are technical advances of the moment, the urban world, innovative

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Curial e Guelfa & Tirant lo Blanc: A Comparative Analysis

Curial e Guelfa: A Fifteenth-Century Romance

Curial e Guelfa: Written in the fifteenth century by an anonymous author, possibly a Valencian secretary of the court of Alfonso the Magnanimous, this is a story of love and war. Curial is made a knight and nobly struggles for Guelfa. Rooted in Greco-Roman classical tradition, the work is divided into three books:

  1. Book 1: The Theme of Love: A young, humble Curial enters the court where Guelfa, a widow, falls in love with him. Curial travels to Austria,
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Understanding Spanish Ballads and Celestina

Spanish Ballads

Ballads are a manifestation of oral transmission, a learned form of Spanish folk poetry.

The earliest known ballads date from the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Method

A series of rhyming verses with 8 syllables and assonance in pairs.

Both primitive troubadour ballads are part of “Old Ballads” and are epic in character, lyrical, and cover various topics.

Classes of Romances

  • Historical
  • Border
  • Topic Carolingian or Breton
  • Romantic and lyrical

The romances mixed narration and dialogue

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