Baroque Literature in 17th-Century Spain: Quevedo and Góngora
THE BAROQUE: historical and cultural context:
the period is the cultural movement that develops in Europe during the seventeenth century. In Spain, part of the so-called Golden Age of literature. This century in Spain is ruled by the Habsburg monarchy: lll felipe, felipe lv, and Charles II. The current situation is decaying, and Spain lost its hegemony in Europe for France. All this is accompanied by an economic crisis and considerable social unrest. The pessimism and disappointment are the feelings
20th Century Spanish Theater
1. Introduction
In the late nineteenth century, the Spanish theater scene was dominated by realistic drama and the works of José de Echegaray, who brought an exaggerated Romanticism to the stage, characterized by extreme passion, conflict, and expressive language and gestures. The realists and the fin de siècle writers rejected Echegaray’s dramaturgy and sought to replace it with new European trends represented by Ibsen and D’Annunzio, among others.
2. Panorama of Spanish Theater in the Early 20th
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Go and Staying
Analysis
This love poem explores the theme of absence and separation. It uses vivid imagery, contrasting verbs, and mythological references to depict the speaker’s emotional turmoil.
The opening lines present opposing verbs (“Go and stay”) to illustrate the lover’s inner conflict. Part of him remains with his beloved in spirit, while the other part is torn away, leaving him heartbroken (“without a soul”). The poem alludes to Ulysses and the Sirens, comparing the speaker’s experience
Read More19th Century Romanticism in Spanish Literature
XIX Century: Romanticism
General Features:
- Irrationalism: Romanticism refuses to explain all of reality through reason alone.
- Subjectivism: If reason has limits, other ways of knowing are necessary (passion, intuition, imagination, instinct…).
- Idealism: Predilection for the ideal over the material.
- Individualism: The romantic individual is self-aware, the ego versus what surrounds him. This sometimes leads to loneliness.
- Creative Genius: The artist is not merely a craftsman who produces; art becomes
19th Century Romanticism and Realism in European Literature
19th Century Literature: Romanticism and Realism
1. Romanticism (1st Half of the 19th Century)
Romanticism was a cultural and political movement that began in the first half of the 19th century in Europe and America. It involved a new way of understanding the world, acknowledging that reason, while important, was not the sole defining factor of humanity. Romantic thinkers believed that human beings also possess feelings, fantasies, and dreams. Romantics expressed a desire for absolute freedom and
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Spanish Theater After the Civil War (1939-1970s)
The evaluation of Spanish theater, like that of narrative and lyric genres, is heavily influenced by the Civil War (1936-1939) and its dramatic consequences. From 1939 onward, the Spanish theatrical scene was marked by the exile of prominent writers such as Max Aub, Rafael Alberti, and Pedro Salinas, and the tragic loss of playwrights like Federico García Lorca, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, and Miguel Hernández.
1. Postwar Theater (1939-1949)
In
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