Romanticism and Enlightenment in Literature: Key Aspects
Romanticism and Enlightenment in Literature
Romanticism is a cultural movement in literature and art that developed in the first half of the 19th century. Nationalisms arose, and the bourgeoisie became the ruling social class following the Industrial Revolution. This era also saw the rise of liberalism, an ideological movement advocating economic and political freedom. Romanticism marked the end of 18th-century rationalism.
Key Features of Romanticism
Its general features are:
- Individualism and Subjectivism:
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Honor, Society, and Fate
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: News, Opinion, and Literary Journalism
Chronicle of a Death Foretold blends news reporting with literary journalism, recounting a story based on real events. It delves into the circumstances surrounding Nasar’s murder by the Vicario brothers, who sought to avenge their family’s honor after Angela Vicario claimed he had deflowered her. This event serves as a lens through which to analyze the conservative Colombian rural society of the 20th century, with its emphasis
Read MoreDialects of Catalan: A Linguistic Exploration
2 Consonantal glide right: Paya, reya, CEYA, aguya, poi, di disappears iodització the intervocalic ll is in contact with an E: you see (old) / the open EIO normarment have a strong opening. / Suffixes-qua, — Gua remain in Ibiza but there are examples of monoftongació: gòtllera (quail) cont (how much). / den Late esdrúixols words, preceded and desapareis cage (cage) history (Histor) family (family). / final vowel — qua, water, passed to-ko-go. / v Labiodental how to Tarragona, but no recession:
Read MoreSpanish Literature: Realism, Exile, and Social Change (1940s-1960s)
This period reflects specific circumstances and eras, showcasing three types of realism: critical, pure, and magic.
Realism
- Argument: No longer based on a novel.
- Author: Objective, all-knowing, and comments, although disappears.
- Reader: Not passive but active or apathetic, able to compose a book.
- Characters: The protagonist loses importance.
- Techniques: Different persons of discourse, sign removal of punctuation, and syntactic style. Behaviorism (narrator disappears) are put away simultaneously in chapter
Carmen Laforet’s Nada: A Postwar Barcelona Story
Carmen Laforet’s *Nada*: A Portrait of Postwar Spain
Nada is a novel written by Carmen Laforet, published in 1945. It won the Nadal Prize in its first edition, making it one of the most important novels of the Spanish postwar period. It is framed within existential realism, a literary movement that reflects the uprooting, anguish, and loneliness of its characters in a hostile world. The work is set in postwar Barcelona, a city marked by poverty and the repression of the Franco regime. Through its
Literary Movements: From Edwardian to Postmodern
Edwardian and Modernist Literature
Edwardian characters, in the works of authors like Wells and Bennett, focused on the society, economy, politics, and moral state of the nation. This gave rise to an Edwardian version of the “Condition of England” novel. They differed from modernist writers in that they were not interested in the characters’ individual psychology, but in their existence as social types to criticize society. The important thing was what was narrated, not how. Modernists were experimental,