Classic and Anti-Classical Literary Movements: Features & History

Posted on Mar 21, 2025 in English Studies

Classic and Anti-Classical Literary Movements

Literary movements get their name because their literary manifestations are not static but are constantly changing and evolving.

Culture: Every manifestation of man (clothes, music, food, tradition, customs, among others).

Features of Classic Literary Movements:

  • Follow patterns.
  • Have an elitist and difficult-to-understand vocabulary.
  • Have a large aesthetic burden.
  • The author does not have creative freedom.
  • They use women as a source of inspiration and spiritual beauty.

Characteristics of Anti-Classical Literary Movements:

  • Do not follow models.
  • They have freedom of inspiration.
  • It is more accessible.
  • He sees the woman as a real being.

Literary Movements Through History:

  1. Middle Ages: Religious literature.
  2. Greco-Roman Literature: Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid. Pagan writing.
  3. Renaissance: Feature: Humanism.
  4. Renaissance: Literature exaggerated spontaneous agitated mood (pathetic).
  5. Neoclassical: Rational movement, rigid and submissive.
  6. Romanticism: It had creative freedom and sentimentality.
  7. Realism and Parnassianism: Positive movement, classic, based on observation and analysis.
  8. Symbolism: Psychological Literature man depth of human mind.
  9. Modernism: Creative, free, for the senses and suggest.
  10. Vanguardismo: Is ahead of the time, breaks the mold.

Andres Bello (1781): Lived in Caracas to 29 years, while Venezuela was in the culmination of the Colonial Era (Time of conspiracy and fighting). She studied from Latin to the works of Cervantes. His works are: the vaccine poem, ode to the craft, the Anauco, Summary of the history of Venezuela.

Romanticism

Social History:

  • It is subjective; the author tells the story as he feels.
  • He means but distorts history.
  • Sustained-bibliographical sources.
  • They use literary metaphors and images.
  • Emotional and partial.
  • They use lyric resources (poems, rhymes, poetry…)
  • The landscape is a framework; they do not describe it or give it importance.
  • He tells the story of a pompous.

Biography of Juan Vicente Gonzalez:

Caracas, 1811. Philosophy student at UCV. In 1830 published first book, The Catilenarias and 9 years later he married Josefa Rodil. He teaches history and drama at schools in Caracas. He was one of the founders of the newspaper The Venezuelan head of the Canton of Caracas and editor of The Evening and La Prensa, which left part of the social and political history of the country. Went through a bitter period with the arrival of Guzman to power and made his compositions mesenianas which sadly describes his impressions of Venezuela, who knew and loved.

The title is taken from Mesenianas elegies that on Messenia, a region of Greece. The elegies that integrate the work cover various topics, but all share a common concern about Venezuela, exaltation of patriotic values and the cult of heroes, moreover, all show the profound sadness with which the author witnessed the conflict that tore his country. In 1858 he reappeared on the political stage and begins to fight the new regime. Their continued opposition led was about to be exiled. Case El Nacional. Sonnet wrote to Bolivar and the Biography of Joseph F. Rivas. He died in Caracas in October 1866.