The Artistic Legacy of Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca: His work expresses his personality: intense vitality, the anxious shadow of death, and constant dualities: passion and technique, inspiration and work, the aesthetic and the human, popular and religious, traditional and avant-garde. His tragic fate, frustration, loneliness, and death are prevalent themes. Lorca expresses the pain of living, both his own and that of others, and his poetry tends to be quite dramatic.
First Stage: Youth and Early Works
Influenced by Bécquer and
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The Narrative of the 20th Century
Following a period of stagnation in linguistic production, the 1930s marked a period of increased production in Catalan fiction. This was due to the growing number of publishers and specific collections devoted to Catalan literature, as well as the creation of literary awards. The psychological novel, which deeply analyzed the inner lives of characters, became prominent. New techniques, such as interior monologue, were introduced, allowing the character’s subconscious
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A. Cervantes – Poet
Cervantes’s poetic work is primarily limited to Journey to Parnassus and some minor, uncollected poems (in addition to the verses included in his novels and plays written in verse). As a poet, Cervantes is not considered to be as prominent as many of his contemporaries who wrote in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Journey to Parnassus is a long poem, written in chained tercets, in which he praises the poets of the period, with some irony in certain cases. The
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13th-Century Prose
Prose in the Romance language developed from the second half of the thirteenth century. The texts are often translations of the Bible, with the purpose of teaching men to live virtuously.
Alfonso X the Wise
Alfonso X, son of Fernando III, inherited the throne of Castile and Leon in 1252. He exerted an important cultural influence. His strong national consciousness led him to write all official documents in Castilian. He promoted the work done by the Toledo School of Translators and
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Noucentisme and the Avant-Garde
In Spain, the literary modernists, sometimes called 98istas, are known as Noucentisme or the Generation of 1914. These artists are characterized by their European focus and their conception of art as separate from social and political concerns.
During the early decades of the twentieth century, Europe saw the rise of various avant-garde movements that radically broke with the themes and expressive techniques of Romanticism and Realism. Avant-garde artists were interested
Read MoreSubordinate Clauses, Literary Movements, and Federico García Lorca
Subordinate Clauses: Types and Functions
Noun Subordinate Clauses
Conjunctions: *if*, *what*, *who*, *when*, *where*, *how*, infinitive without *to*.
Functions: Subject, Direct Object (CD – *that*, *if*, interrogative pronouns*), Prepositional Complement (CR – *prep. + which*), Noun Complement (CN – *prep. + which*), Adjective Complement (*prep. + that*), Attribute.
Adjective (or Relative) Subordinate Clauses
Relative Pronouns: *who*, *where*, *whom*, *which*, *whose*.
Relative Adverbs: *where*, *how*
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