Features of the Latin American Post-Boom Novel
The thematic, narrative, and stylistic features of The House of the Spirits can be included in the literary movement called the post-boom (generation of 1980), which followed the generation known as magical realism (1960s).
Literary Background
- The Novel: Combines fantastic elements of magic, folk beliefs, and supernatural or extraordinary events possible in reality. The Mexican author Juan Rulfo (1918-1986) anticipated magical realism in Pedro Páramo (1955).
- The Political Novel: Addresses social and
Modernism and Generation of ’98 in Spain & Latin America
Modernism and the Generation of ’98
In the period covering the last years of the 19th century and the early 20th century, several important authors and two movements are made available in Spain: Modernism and the Generation of ’98. For some, they are two distinct groups; for others, like Juan Ramón Jiménez, Modernism and the Generation of ’98 are the same thing and represent the response to the end-of-the-century crisis in Spain. They have elements in common as well as differences.
- Modernists prefer
Cancionero Poetry and Jorge Manrique in the 15th Century
Lyric Poetry and *Cancionero* Poetry
Cancionero poetry refers to all thematically diverse compositions belonging to poets associated with the court, collected in large anthologies (books that compile many texts by different authors: Songbooks).
Themes in *Cancionero* Poetry
The themes developed are:
- Love: Courtly love. The concept of love in the songbooks is consistent with the purest tradition of Provence (Southern France) and repeats the commonplaces of troubadour poetry: love as a service, the elusive
Iberian Peninsula Languages: Romanization and Evolution
Languages Before Romanization
In the second century BC, before the arrival of the Romans, the most widespread languages in the Iberian Peninsula were:
- The Indo-European Celtic languages, which, although gone, left Latin loans that reached Castilian, such as watercress or heather.
- The non-Indo-European Iberian language, related to the Hamitic languages of North Africa, also disappeared.
- The Basque language, of uncertain origin, has survived until today, contributing terms such as left or squat.
- Other
Garcilaso de la Vega: A Deep Dive into Poetry
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Read MoreThe Generation of ’27: Spanish Literary Avant-Garde
The Generation of ’27: A Centenary Commemoration
This year, we gather to commemorate the centenary of Góngora, a poet admired by all. This meeting takes place at the student residence, where some of the poets lived and where they met avant-garde figures like Juan Ramón Jiménez, who headed the residence for several years.
Aesthetics of the Generation of ’27
All sought to be innovators and shared some common features:
- They valued the Spanish literary tradition and did not break with it as radically