Lorca’s Theater: Exploring Themes of Freedom and Love
Lorca’s Theater: Themes of Freedom and Love
Lorca’s theater is characterized by seeking new forms and the rejection of traditional theater. He believed theater had the obligation to provide the public with the possibility of moral evidence, addressing old or mistaken ideas and exploring examples of the heart and living standards. Man’s feelings, according to Lorca, should not be a mere show for entertainment but a place where people’s lives are reflected. Lorca achieved this purpose through a treatment
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Essays: Critical and Theoretical Approaches
Edward Said, *Orientalism*
Orientalism is a book in which the author establishes the eponymous term “Orientalism” as a critical concept to describe the West’s common, contemptuous depiction and portrayal of “The East,” i.e. the Orient. Societies and peoples of the Orient are those who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. Said argues that Orientalism, in the sense of Western scholarship about the Eastern World, is inextricably tied
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Generation of ’98
The Generation of ’98, comprised of figures like Baroja, Maeztu, Azorín, and Unamuno, focused on Spain’s national decay. They aimed to regenerate the country and renew Spanish literature in the early 20th century. There are two viewpoints on whether the group belongs to Modernism (Cernuda and Gullón) or not (Salinas). They meet Petersen’s characteristics: no more than 15 years between them, the same formative events, and a shared historical event. Nietzsche served as a guide.
Characteristics:
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Romanticism
Characteristics of Romantic Literature
Romantic literature is characterized by the emergence of new subjects and new forms.
- New Issues: Extreme pessimism, love as an absolute passion, the reflection of human feelings in nature, the idealization of the past, and interest in the exotic and picturesque.
- New Forms: Mixtures of prose and verse, the blending of literary genres, plays that break the rules, and prose with historicist traditions.
Mariano José de Larra
Born in Madrid in 1809, Mariano
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The Nineteenth Century: Romanticism and Realism in Spain
The first half of the nineteenth century in Spain presents a spectacle of a country struggling to mature against the backdrop of a new European spirit. This period was significantly marked by Romanticism.
The Romantic Movement
Romanticism was a political and cultural movement that affected Spain and other European countries. It reacted against the rationalism of the eighteenth century (preromanticism). The Romantics inquired into the unknown
Read MoreThe Poetic Legacy of Antonio Machado and Juan Ramón Jiménez
The Poetry of Antonio Machado and Juan Ramón Jiménez
Antonio Machado was representative of the literary Generation of ’98, surpassing the poetic tradition through symbolic procedures and creating poetry of great excitement and insight. Machado defends poetry as “the dialogue of a man with his time,” emphasizing poetic intuition experienced temporally, unlike logical thinking based on concepts.
Key Themes in Machado’s Poetry
1. The Concept of Time
Machado was interested in time as lived experience,
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