Catalan Literature: Middle Ages to 19th Century
What is the Value of the Chronicles as a Historical Document?
The four chronicles were written between the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. These documents are of great interest to understand the reigns of kings during the Catalan medieval period. However, they have more propaganda than the will to search for historical truth.
What Elements Reflect the Novel-like Catalan Chivalric?
Realistic treatment is a distinguishing element of the Catalan chivalric novel. There will be a distancing from the fanciful and implausible trend that predominates in books of chivalry.
What Similarities and What Differences Are There Between Tirant lo Blanc and Curial e Güelfa?
Tirant lo Blanc is a novel that has achieved a certain echo and was even praised by Cervantes. Curial e Güelfa is still little known, as it was not published until 1901 when the erudite Antoni Rubió i Lluch retrieved it. These two novels differ in their chivalrous style. Curial feels as though it has a little writing rectory, while Tirant is part of the Valencian prose.
What Does it Mean That Tirant lo Blanc is a Complete Novel?
In this novel, there is a narrative world, and even more, a reality that does not escape likelihood. It seems to us an alternative to the “unsatisfactory” experience of living of Joanot Martorell. In his work, the writer constructs a universe in which the protagonist gets what a knight did not make possible: the kings released their fears of Turkish Constantinople.
Aspects That Characterize Tirant lo Blanc‘s Style?
It offers two linguistic and literary options that greatly enrich the novel. On one hand, we found a colloquial, realistic, and direct way of using short sentences, sayings, and slogans.
What Real Changes Govern the Nineteenth Century and Lead From the Social Point of View?
- The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution involved a series of fundamental changes that have a key role throughout the nineteenth century.
- The meter revolution and the fall of the aristocratic regime encourage the difficult consolidation of systems of government, constitutional monarchies, and republics.
- The Industrial Revolution impacted women’s role, as well as the ruling class (bourgeoisie) and the proletariat as a social sector of workers who struggle to be treated justly.
How do Publishers Become Established and What is Their Relationship With the Writer?
Publishers become real companies in the elaboration and marketing of books. From this perspective, literature should be professionalized, and the writer’s business should live by the laws of the publishing market.
What are the Conditions for the Professionalization of the Writer Now?
In order to professionalize, the writer is governed by the tastes of the public and avoids the penalty of censure. On one hand, he has to bet on an easy literature to distract and not raise concerns. On the other hand, he should be very respectful of religion and the public morality of the ruling classes.
What Causes Social and Economic Rejection of the Artist?
When the artist or writer does not accept the rules established in a company and its commitment to creative work, they may experience social and economic marginalization. This rejection has an expression in the bohemian alternative, which is nothing but a precarious living on the fringes of established society, in which the artist stays true to his art.
What Type of Writer Can Be Determined in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century?
In the second half of the nineteenth century, we find examples of the writer dedicated to “art for art’s sake” and those who are committed socially and politically. The first lives in an isolated world, only dedicated to the perfection of his art. The other decides to apprehend the debates and issues of his time.
How is the Recovery of the Medieval Past and of Popular Literature in the Renaissance?
The fact that the medieval past had been a period of time in which Catalonia became a true legend served as a stimulus to recover the identity that promoted the movement of the Renaissance.
What is Basically the Renaissance?
The Renaissance is a revival movement within and for the realization of the Catalan identity that occurs primarily during the nineteenth century, although the first symptoms are detected already in the full illustration of the seventeenth century. Culture is an attitude that looks to the Catalan medieval past but also appreciates the need to adapt some of the liveliest currents of European culture.
What is the Relationship Between Romanticism and the Established Renaissance?
Romanticism is valued as a means of expression, the expression of the spirit of individual and collective national. It is in this sense that all traditional popular creations are considered very important: legends, epic poetry, myths, customs, songs, and dances.
What are the Most Important Platforms for the Dissemination of the Renaissance?
The Renaissance has two basic means of dissemination: the press and the book industry. Despite the precariousness of these platforms, there will be a great echo of publications related to popular literature.
What are the Gains of the Floral Games?
The Floral Games became an institution that progressively gained popular and social prestige, leading to creation. The virtue of becoming a center for promoting literature in Catalan, with the participation of opposing ideological sectors and the presence of other generations, also contributed.
What Makes Aribau’s Poem “Ode to the Homeland” More Clearly Romantic?
- The poem “Ode to the Homeland” by B. C. Aribau clearly has aspects of a romantic story: the feeling of longing and evocation of the homeland across the landscape, language, and glorious past.
- The identification of the motherland with the language is understood as the idealized expression of an era, of one’s own history linked to childhood, emotional, intimate, and sincere.
What Does “Ode to the Homeland” Bring From the Linguistic Point of View?
One of the values of “Ode to the Homeland” is its dignity and refined poetic language, which confirms the potential of Catalan as a language of culture in an era when this was called into question. We must remember that the Catalan language had centuries of rather restricted worship and erratic use behind it.