18th Century Spanish Literature: Enlightenment and Neoclassicism
XVIII Century European Literature: The Home of Modernity
The eighteenth century is a crucial period in the history of Western culture, marking the beginning of an expansive movement that continues to this day.
Social Changes
This era witnessed the rise and consolidation of the bourgeoisie, a class that would dismantle the old societal order based on estates and pave the way for a new class-based society.
Economic Transformations
Economically, the eighteenth century was pivotal for the industrialization
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15th-Century Spanish Literature
Literary Genres
Old Ballads
Revitalizes the epic and enriches the courtly tradition.
Popular-Traditional Narrative Poetry
- Old Ballads: Short, epic lyric compositions derived from the fragmentation of songs of gesta.
- Evolution and Transmission: Initially transmitted orally, later collected by authors in songbooks and romanceros.
- New Artistic Ballads: Composed by poets like Cervantes, Góngora, Quevedo, and Lope de Vega.
- Themes: Historical-national, romantic, lyrical, border,
Lexical Structure and Word Formation
Lexical Structure
Lexeme
The lexeme (or root) is an indispensable component that contains the basic meaning of a word.
Morphemes
Morphemes (or affixes) can be added to a lexeme to modify its meaning. They can be prefixes (added before the root) or suffixes (added after the root). For example, in the word “fustetes”, “-et” is a diminutive suffix. Grammatical morphemes indicate grammatical categories, such as plural (“fustetes”).
Morphology and Lexicology
Morphology studies grammatical morphemes and verbal
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ITEM 11: Literature
What is Literature?
Artistic creativity expressed in words, even if they are not written, but spread by word of mouth.
Literature as an Aesthetic Phenomenon
Its vehicle of expression is language, which is the usual system of communication between people.
Literature as a Communicative Phenomenon
The literary work must be understood as an act of communication between human beings. The communicative situation of the literary work is different if it refers to:
- Issuer: Absent at the time
Medieval Spanish Literature: An Overview
Lite Med
Chronology:
glosses, moaxaha, jarcha, matchmaker.
Contex
Litera:
Romance languages Substrate folk, lyrical Galician language, caste xiv; polygenesis: thematic, and linguistic unit Greco-Roman literature, Latin prestige Originality: new relationship with previous work, not is plagiarism, exempla; zejel.
Texts medieval two periods, until the fifteenth and despues.Viven princip own language and Latin, modify and permeate; Castilian unstable phone, sintac, graf to q encodes AlfonX and imitate
Postwar Spanish Narrative: From the 60s to Renewal
The Postwar Spanish Narrative from the Late 1960s
I. The Story of the 80s
The Spanish Civil War marked a significant rupture in the country’s cultural life. The prevailing political conditions heavily influenced literary production, particularly in the realm of narrative. Several factors contributed to this:
- The establishment of strict censorship.
- Self-censorship practiced by many writers to avoid having their novels banned.
- The prohibition of Spanish and foreign authors, which prevented young novelists