Spanish Literature: Application Letters to Contemporary Poetry
Letters and Theater
Application Letters: used for placing orders, request services… Letters of Transmittal Reports: often accompany checks, money, business documents. Letters of Complaint: express a complaint with a business transaction error or a professional decision or administration. Letters of Social Relations: relations between clients: greeting cards, invitations.
Comedy and Conservative Theater
Burgesa Comedy: It was created by Buenavente and Jacinto. It addresses transcendental problems with a slight ironic critique of manners and elegant social dialogue. Naturalness predominates. Works: Vested Interests (1907). Conservative Theater: Answers to suit the audience; the play succeeds and works. Traditionalists predominate witty and humorous dialogue; its purpose is fun.
Manifestations of Conservative Theater
- Comedy Burgesa (Jacinto Benavente)
- Comedy of Manners (Carlos Arniches)
- Comedy (Enrique Jardiel Poncela)
- Poetic Theater (Eduardo Marquina)
Marginal Theater and Valle-Inclán
Marginal Theater: A theater that tries to renew the theatrical landscape. Representatives:
Groups
- Group 98: Unamuno, Azorín, Jacinto Grau, Valle Inclán.
- Generation 27: Alberti, Miguel Hernández, Lorca.
Works of Valle-Inclán
- Cycle Mythical: (Comedies barbaric, the haunted, Divine Words)
- Cycle Farce: (Child farce dragon’s head, the Italian farce love with the king, farce and Queen Castiza license)
- Cycle Esperpento: (Lights bohemian whopping don horns, the trappings of the deceased, the daughter of the captain)
Lorca’s Tragedies
The Tragedies (Lorca): Covering social issues. Ambientadas in Andalucia. Protagonized by women. Tragic outcome.
Examples
- Maria Pineda: The story of a woman punished for defending freedom.
- Bodas de Sangre: Recounts the abduction of a bride on her wedding night by her former lover.
- Yerma: The obsession of a sterile woman to be a mother.
- “Dona Rosita the Spinster and the language of flowers” is about a single woman who suffers over time and sees that love does not arrive.
- The House of Bernarda Alba: The repression of five daughters by their mother.
Poetry After the War
- Rooted Poetry: The poets who remained in Spain or aligned with the ideology of the victors.
- Uprooted Poetry: They remained silent in internal exile.
- Social Poetry 50: (1950) Attempt to change society; the poems deal with matters most, especially those injustices.
Topics of Social Poetry
- Dehumanization
- Testimony from the poverty of human being
- Desire for peace
- Political commitment
Simplicity of language, much like the colloquial register.
Poets
Blas de Otero (I ask for peace and the word that comes to Spain).
- Poesia 70 years of experience: Angel Gonzalez, Jose Agustin Goytisolo Jaime Gil, Claudio Rodríguez. Called experiencia. Poets spoke in poems about the everyday aspects of personal life with skepticism and irony. Looking for a personal style, in which the humor and irony, quotations from readings and songs to generate an intimate conversation with the reader.
- Novísimos 70: 70 was published in an anthology (nine newest Spanish poets) Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Felix de Azua, Pere Gimferrer, Leopoldo María Panero.
Topics of Novísimos 70
Exhibition of its realism and introduce cultura.Rechazan in style borrowed from the avant-garde experiments (automatic writing, collage), or of modernism: a taste for the exotic, x rate x dl-expressive lexicon cuidado. Otros poets: Antonio Colinas, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Jaime Siles and Luis Antonio de Villena.
In recent years, from a warning 1975se impede the excesses cambio.Se culturalist and goes to a poetry anthologies intimista. Ploriferan trying to restore order and establish classifications. Blanca Andreu, Luis Garcia Montero, Felipe Benitez Reyes and Jon Juaristi.
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