Evolution of Education in England: 19th and 20th Centuries

Education in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Education for the Poor in the Early 19th Century

At the beginning of the 19th century, there was no state-run education system in England.

  • All schools were privately run.
  • Parents had to arrange and pay for any schooling.
  • Most children, especially those of poor parents, received little or no schooling.

Dame Schools

  • These small schools were typically run by an older woman.
  • They provided a place to leave children while parents were out to work.
  • Education was limited
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Spanish Literature: Ballads and La Celestina

Spanish Ballads: Forms, Themes, and Style

The ballad encompasses a wide range of compositions, including romances, epic poems, and lyrical or epic-lyric poems. These typically feature an undetermined number of eight-syllable lines with assonant rhyme in pairs. Traditional forms and themes have been collected and transmitted orally from generation to generation.

Types of Ballads

  • Old Ballads: Anonymous works dating from an unknown source to the mid-sixteenth century.
  • New Ballads: Texts written since the
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Baroque Literature in 17th Century Spain: Styles & Key Authors

Baroque Literature in 17th Century Spain

The Baroque: Thought and Literature

Baroque Mentality

Baroque mentality is characterized by a sense of skepticism and pessimism, considered critical due to the political, economic, and social development of Spain. This is reflected in the following points:

  • Disillusionment with the World: The beauty of reality is a mere appearance, deceit, and lies. Only the ugliness of man’s life is misery, full of sorrow and weakness. A negative view of everything human.
  • Fear
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Understanding the Epic: A Deep Dive into Poetic Form

Epic Poetry: Form, Evolution, and Historical Context

An epic is a poetic genre consisting of six verses, composed of six feet, either spondees (/ _ _ /) or dactyls (/ _ uu /). These verses recount heroic deeds, both human and divine.

Content Characteristics

Epic poetry encompasses a wide range of themes, often with a broad scope. There is a tension between historical and mythological themes, the latter typically being more prominent. Additionally, there is a tension between the unity of the narrative

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Romanticism in Spain: Literature, Theater, Prose, and Poetry

Romanticism: A Literary Movement

Romanticism was a literary movement whose heyday was in Europe during the first decades of the nineteenth century. It is characterized by its delivery to the imagination and subjectivity, freedom of thought and expression, and its idealization of nature. Its features are:

  • Individualism and subjectivism
  • Search for originality and the distinctive features of nations
  • Protection of freedom from all points of view of art, which leads to an attitude of rebellion against any
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Avant-Garde Movements and the Spanish Generation of ’27

Avant-Garde Movements of the Early 20th Century

Futurism: Celebrated the myths and stereotypes of modernity, such as speed, machines, and strength. Futurists glorified war and advocated for the destruction of museums, libraries, and everything related to the traditional concept of art. It was especially important in Italy, and its founder, Marinetti, was closely aligned with fascism.

Expressionism: A German-born movement that deformed the visible world to transmit a tragic awareness of life. It expressed

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