Plautus, Seneca, Virgil: Key Figures in Roman Literature
Plautus (Archaic Period)
He is considered the most genuine comic writer of Roman literature. He also organized performances of great public success, despite the financial problems encountered. Noted for his adaptations of Greek New Comedy.
- Host: Jupiter is in love with Alcmene and makes her believe that her husband was returning from the war. The tone is familiar and everyday.
- The Comedy of the Pot: An old miser has found a pot of gold and does not trust anyone.
- Menaechmus: A character looking for his
The Generation of ’27: A Literary Renaissance
The Spanish Generation of ’27: A Deep Dive
New roads opened by the poetic work of Juan Ramón Jiménez and the renewal of avant-garde experiments formed an environment where a group of poets gave Spanish literature a new moment of brilliance. The extraordinary quality of their poetic production is undeniable. This group, known as the Generation of ’27, included figures like Jorge Guillén, Gerardo Diego, Federico García Lorca, Dámaso Alonso, Vicente Aleixandre, Luis Cernuda, and Rafael Alberti.
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Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC – 17 AD)
He studied in Rome and joined the literary circle of Maecenas, but fell into disfavor with Emperor Augustus, who banished him to Pontus (Black Sea), where he died without receiving a pardon. Ovid cultivated lyric, epic, and epistolography.
He is arguably the last great elegiac poet, though his depiction of love is conventional and full of erudition. Ovid was a poet with a knack for writing and great technical perfection, which led him to write many verses, in which
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The Spanish Novel: From Post-War to Present
The Novel of Exile
Key Themes: Memory of Spain, causes and consequences of the Civil War, references to places and environments of exile.
Important Post-War Novelists:
- Ramon J. Sender: Chronicle of Dawn, recreating his childhood and youth.
- Rosa Chacel: Memoirs of Leticia Valle, concerned with the aesthetics of realism.
- Max Aub: His most important work is The Magic Labyrinth.
- Francisco Ayala: Short stories dealing with corruption and the power of dictatorships.
Evolution of Galician Narrative: 1975 to Present
Freedoms in earnings during the transition (1975-1981) allowed a surge of publications in Portugal, the emergence of new publishers (Galaxy), and literary prizes that strive to make classical texts available to new generations, or check out the literature on the *testemuñalista* Civil War, still in full swing, as Cunqueiro narrators (The Other Marketer, 1979) or Fole (Stories that Nobody Believes, 1985). Out of the cycle of new narrative, works are published by Galician actors such as Mª Xosé
Read MoreMatter of Britain and Catalan Chronicles: A Literary Analysis
Matter of Britain and Catalan Chronicles
The Roman concept evolves, with a new translation in rhymed narration. The original new rhyming story, Temantica, is related to courtly tastes of the public.
Matter of Britain
The legend re-emerges concerning unemployment. Britain will be a matter of phyllo and thematic creativity until the fifteenth century in Catalonia. The Matter of Britain enters the XII century. An example is the poem of the troubadour Guerau Cabrera, a liaison representative of this influence
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