Romanticism: Origins, Characteristics, and Key Figures
Romanticism: Origins and Key Aspects
Romanticism was a cultural and artistic movement that emerged in Germany and England in the late 18th century and spread throughout Europe.
Origins and Influences
In Germany, the Sturm und Drang movement advocated for absolute creative freedom, championed Shakespeare, and celebrated medieval poetry as a reflection of the national spirit. The Weimar Classicism group (Herder, Grimm, etc.) also played a significant role. Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther caused
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Modernism
Modernism is a facelift that collects and presents the vital innovative attitudes, philosophical and artistic ends of the nineteenth century, resulting from a crisis of conscience, a bourgeois reaction against materialism and the utilitarian spirit of the time. Modernism developed between 1885 and 1915. It expresses beauty with a new sensitivity on the issues and a new, very precious language, then becomes more intimate and essential and less contrived. It is a movement that has different
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REALISTIC FICTION: Realism was an artistic and literary trend that developed in the second half of the nineteenth century. From the standpoint of literature, the most representative manifestations correspond to the narrative genre.
The fullness of the realist novel was in the 1880s, in which the contributions of naturalism helped shape the new Spanish and most important creations of the era. In the later part of the nineteenth century can point to other movements such as modernism.
Realism: Realism
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Medieval Literature: An Overview
The Medieval period typically spans from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople. It is usually divided into the Early Middle Ages and the High Middle Ages.
Key Features of Medieval Society and Thought
- Society was divided into three estates: nobility, clergy, and peasants, who worked for a feudal lord. Later, a fourth group emerged: the bourgeoisie, engaged in trade and crafts.
- Culture was centered around the royal courts and monasteries.
Romanticism in Spain: Literature, Prose, and Drama
Romanticism: A Cultural and Artistic Movement
Romanticism was a cultural and artistic movement that emerged in Germany and England in the late 18th and 19th centuries. This movement marked the beginning of modernity and, in complex ways, laid the foundation of the ideology of the bourgeois liberal state.
Key Features of Romanticism
- Freedom and Individualism: Romanticism emphasized the importance of individual freedom and affirmed its supreme value: moral, political, and artistic freedom.
- Subjectivity
Spanish Theater Evolution: Valle-Inclán and Lorca
In the late nineteenth century, several attempts were made (Galdós Dicenta, Unamuno) to bring theater to an end, eliminating the rhetoric and melodrama that triumphed in the halls. The goal was to reproduce real, contentious issues with less rhetorical language. However, these attempts were unsuccessful. It was Jacinto Benavente (1866-1954) who was in charge of shaping the new theater and submitting to the demands of an audience. This led him to create a successful formula with a slight dose of
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