Meditations on Didactic Literature: XVI, XVII, and XVIII Centuries
Meditations on the XVI, XVII, and XVIII Centuries
The Didactic Genre
The didactic is a literary genre that presents scientific truths, doctrines, or knowledge in order to teach or explain them simply.
Dialogue or Philosophical Doctrine
The dialogue, cultivated by classical Greek philosophers like Plato and Socrates, and the Latin writer Cicero, is a frequently used didactic subgenre. It mimics a conversation between several characters, one of whom exposes their thesis and responds to others. This subgenre was rediscovered by humanists. It reached its greatest popularity as a literary form during the Renaissance, as it reflected the pros and cons of the issues discussed.
The Essay
The essay was the most cultivated genre in the philosophical and cultural movement that developed during the seventeenth century (the Enlightenment). Few examples of prose from this period are educational in nature. The work of the Catalan scholar Baldiri Reixac, who was concerned with the study and defense of the language at a time when many intellectuals disdained it, should be noted.
Essay Topics:
- Covers several topics, including philosophy, history, politics, letters, science, or pedagogy.
- The expertise of the essay generated the emergence of new sciences such as economics, psychology, social science, and policy.
Extension and Forms:
- Ranges from the article to book length.
- Adopts a variety of forms: the digression, the dissertation, the diary, the epistle, dialogue.
History:
Includes the Grammar and Apology of the Catalan language. The intake can be defined as one chronicler wrote the book for days, the most notable events. Cajon de sastre main topics:
- Music (Rafael Amat had knowledge of music, which speaks often sound instruments etc.)
- Cuisine (narrated in detail dishes cooked at the time, especially among the nobles)
- Excursions (in the vicinity of the exits or BCN France demonstrates its head. observation)
- Aristocracy (is a noble speech habits of this class and often thinks of key aristocratic)
- Popular artisan (dealing with simple people of Menestralia)
- Descriptions of people (people describe the villages and towns, esp. girls)
- Events of the time (explains the most important events, the arrival of C. III BCN)
Narrative Folklore
The legend and rodalla are major subgenres of narrative popular that has a great tradition. The origin of popular tales is very old, but it was during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries that people ended up shaping these tales that were passed down orally.
Comedy
- Themes: Space and time are indeterminate, combining real elements with fantastic elements, and the protagonist must solve a conflict that ends happily.
- Language: Simple, oral character. Frequent use of onomatopoeia, diminutives and augmentatives, and repetitions to indicate continuity of action or to emphasize ideas.
- Purpose: Addressed to children, teen PURPOSE moralistic. EX: Peter fearlessly in patufet, the flower of love or penical for Three Oranges.
Legend
Unlike the fable, the legend is based on a true historical fact that over the centuries has been distorted and enriched with elements that are marvelous and implausible, the fruit of popular imagination.
The Legends of Catalonia:
Catalonia is rich in legends, most of which are historical in nature. The protagonists are individuals with historical features (Count Arnau, Jaume I). Several legends explain the origin of a surname or shape of a mountain (the bars of blood, birth of King James, the pigs of BCN, jump laughed the arrears).