Key Concepts of Spanish Literature: Realism to Avant-Garde

Key Concepts in Spanish Literature

Realism and Narrative Technique

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Realism's Evolving Narrative

1. Question: What aspect of the narrative technique of realism changed from the '92 writers, and why? Consider a novel with a plot plan. Prior to this change, the narrator was omniscient. This did not reflect the truth of life because it limited the freedom of its characters.
2. Question: How does the subjectivist approach resolve Baroja, Unamuno, and Valle-Inclán, respectively? Pío Baroja believed the best approach was the accumulation of arbitrary events. Miguel de Unamuno spoke to his own characters. Valle-Inclán subjected his characters to different aesthetic intentions, either idealizing or burlesquing them. Azorín identified with one of his fictional characters to explain their own experiences and thoughts.
3. Question: What is an essay? Essays are short texts, written in prose, in which someone expresses an opinion on diverse topics with freedom of style and from a personal standpoint.
4. Question: What is the difference between commercial theater and the renewal of '98? Commercial theater conserved Realism and Romanticism and was accepted by the public. Renewal provided a basis for the most important dramatic works of the twentieth century, whose aesthetics and dynamics were not understood or accepted. What are the three types of commercial theater? Poetic drama, comedy, and bourgeois manners drama.
5. Question: What is the 'scarecrow' technique? It represents reality in a distorted way so that its defects are obvious. What is the language and technique of Valle-Inclán's work "Bohemian Lights"? It follows a blind poet on a trip through Madrid. The scenes of their journey symbolically present the dismal state of the country.

The Avant-Garde Movement

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Avant-Garde Characteristics

1. Question: What are the avant-garde movements? Artistic movements that radically break with the themes and expressive techniques of Romanticism and Realism.
2. Question: Cite three features of Noucentista literature: The replacement of self-education through thorough university study, its cosmopolitanism led them to the knowledge of foreign languages, while cultivating good Spanish, linguistic depth, taking advantage of modern musical and noventayochista elements.
3. Question: How important was the essay for Noucentista writers? It was the ideal medium to disseminate their ideas and knowledge to people from different areas. The most important writer was José Ortega y Gasset.
4. Question: What is the main intention of the Noucentista poets? They worried about getting a precise and clear message to convey the idea accurately.
5. Question: Cite three avant-garde movements: Creationism, Ultraism, and Surrealism.
6. Question: What best defines the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez? His style incorporates features of learned poetry, the popular and avant-garde, but what best defines it is the constant search for precise expression. The theme that emerges is the changing nature as the stages running through the poet: Sensitive Phase (nature is treated in a descriptive way), Intellectual Stage (ornaments flee and seeks simplicity and purity of expression. The nature serves to illustrate his statementsencouragement. Enough stage (the most spiritual. It is filled with his desire for eternity and beauty because it merges with nature. Two works: Platero and I and Diary of a Newly Married Poet.
7. Question: What is the role of Ramón Gómez de la Serna in the Spanish vanguard and later in the Generation of '27? He edited magazines, conducted radio programs, and promoted gatherings that served to introduce the vanguards to Spain. His work paved the way for renewing the poets of the Generation of '27. What is an outcry? A humorous metaphor with which he used to represent their particular worldview. It is the triumph of subjectivity and the antithesis of Realism.