Literary Genres: Epic, Lyric, Dramatic, Didactic

Literary Genres

Lyric Genre

The lyric genre is characterized by a subjective attitude where the author expresses personal sentiments. It can be represented in verse or prose.

Lyric Subgenres

  • Letrilla: Burlesque, loving, or religious content, often in the form of a carol.
  • Ode: Expresses emotion through the contemplation of something.
  • Hymn: A poetic composition directed to something, celebrating its virtues.
  • Satire: A brief composition that censors individual or collective vices.
  • Eclogue: A pastoral character
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Spanish Baroque Painting: Velázquez and Murillo

Other issues that were explored: Zurbarán’s The Holy Face and The Baby Jesus in the Carpentry, carving a cross or concocting in Nazareth a crown of spines. Its true everyday world transcriptions are synthesized in his still lifes.

Baroque Realism: Velázquez and Murillo

Diego Rodríguez de Silva Velázquez (Madrid, 1599 – Seville, 1660) is the greatest genius of Spanish art. He was a supreme portraitist who covered all genres of painting: religious painting, mythological fable, still life and landscape.

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Pre-Romanesque Art in Europe: Visigothic and Asturian

Pre-Romanesque Art

Developed in Western Europe between the 5th and 10th centuries. It can be divided into two stages:

  1. Between the 5th and 8th centuries: Art of the Barbarians or Germanic peoples. In Spain, this corresponds to the Visigoths.
  2. Between the 8th and 10th centuries: Pre-Romanesque art itself. This includes Carolingian art in France, and Asturian and Mozarabic art in Spain.

Visigothic Art

The Visigoths were the most Romanized of the Germanic peoples. Their capital was in Toledo. Visigothic art

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20th Century Western World: Thought, Aesthetics, and Literature

Historical Periods of the 20th Century

The 20th century Western world underwent profound transformation, marked by two World Wars, the Russian Revolution, and the Cold War.

Panorama of 20th Century Thought

Three major schools of thought emerged: existentialism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism, often appearing intertwined.

Aesthetics in the 20th Century

Aesthetics evolved rapidly in the 20th century, with numerous artistic streams. Three major trends included social, experimental, and existential approaches.

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Life, Love, and Death in Miguel Hernández’s Poetry

Miguel Hernández’s poetry revolves around three main themes: life, love, and death. Love is reflected and expressed in different ways. In Perito en lunas, love is linked to nature. Sensitivity is lit; poems reveal natural vitality, always reflecting their sensitivity and vitality. After this sensual phase, Miguel Hernández finds his voice and his ‘wound’—love—with El Rayo que no cesa, which reveals the poet’s inner wound embodied in the ‘lightning’ and ‘knife’. Love is tormented passion. The

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Literary Analysis: Exploring Lyric, Epic, and Dramatic Forms

Literary Forms: Lyric, Epic, and Dramatic

Lyric: Expresses feelings and thoughts.

Epic: Narrates real or imagined events, objectively, in verse.

Dramatic: Used in the theater, featuring dialogue and characters, and presenting conflicts to engage the audience.

Structure of Poetic Forms

Poetic structures can be divided into one, two, or three parts. It’s an art organized in:

  • Minor verses (maximum 8 syllables)
  • Major verses (more than 8 syllables)

Rhyme

  • Consonance (gone, gone)
  • Assonance
  • No rhyme = loose verse

Verse

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