Henry: Literary Contributions and Valencian Heritage
The literary value of Henry lies in two major contributions: his five novels and his short stories. He employs an omniscient and subjective narrator, achieving greater precision, thoroughness, and accuracy in detail. His great proficiency is evident in his use of oral folk tradition and a well-balanced literary language.
The tales are drawn from a core source of oral narrative, profoundly transforming and reformulating the stories, often focusing on cults. The short stories are notable for their
Read More19th and Early 20th Century Spanish Literary Movements
Romanticism: 19th Century Cultural Movement
Romanticism, a cultural movement characteristic of the first half of the 19th century, is the result of the profound crisis of a rapidly changing world.
Features of Romanticism
- Irrationalism
- Subjectivism
- Idealism
- Individualism
- Creative genius
- Betrayal
- Escape
- Solitude
- Dynamic nature
- New sensitivity
Realism: 19th Century Literary Movement
Realism is the cultural movement characteristic of 19th-century bourgeois society, which no longer favored fantasy and romantic idealism.
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Rubén Darío
Work
- Azul…: Poems are characterized by elegance and sensuality.
- Prosas Profanas: Represents the fullness of Parnassian Modernism. Surprises for the musicality of the verse, which shows the metric range of motion. Poetry is a precious, exotic, sophisticated fantasy. The poet, who said “I hate life and the time I happened to be born”, takes refuge in an ivory tower (a symbol of aristocratic exterior insulation).
- Cantos de Vida y Esperanza: There is a crisis of earlier aestheticism. Now
Much Ado About Nothing: Plot Summary & Analysis
Much Ado About Nothing: A Delicate Balance Between Comedy and Tragedy
Although the crisis ends quickly, Much Ado About Nothing sometimes seems only steps away from becoming a tragedy. Indeed, the line between tragedy and comedy is sometimes fuzzy. Many critics have noted that the plot of Much Ado About Nothing shares significant elements with that of Romeo and Juliet. Much Ado About Nothing also shares many features with Shakespeare’s late play, The Winter’s Tale, which most critics assign to
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The Languages of Communication
Within society, there are different social realities that determine diverse linguistic realities. We are referring to the varieties of different strata of society: the diastratic varieties. We often identify, in a particular social stratum, different linguistic levels:
- Cultivated: Those who use this should not exclude the following two.
- Popular: Characterized by subjectivity.
- Vulgar: Those who do not follow the rules of the language, and beyond that, they show flaws in
Spanish Post-War Literature: Cela and Delibes
Camilo José Cela: A Controversial Literary Figure
Camilo José Cela (1916-2002) was a controversial figure in Spanish literature. His narrative work often included profanity, which led some to question his ability as a novelist. However, his book The Family of Pascual Duarte (1942) was a surprising success in the context of the mediocrity of the time. Following this success, Cela wrote other novels, highlighting his efforts to find new formal models. He wrote a novel about a community of patients
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