Renaissance Spanish Literature: An Overview
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Renaissance Spanish Literature
Didactic Prose
Works by authors like Hermanos Valdés explored educational themes common in Renaissance literature.
Miscellaneous
Varied subjects with didactic purposes are seen in works preceding the trial, including those by Juan Huerta de San Juan, Fray Antonio de Guevara, and Melchor de la Cruz.
Historiography
This involves the study of historical writings, their sources, and authors dealing with these matters. Mariana aimed to present...
Lazarillo de Tormes
This 1525 composition, with an unknown author, is an autobiographical novel in letter form. It features a foreword and seven treatises. The first three treatises, and the fourth, focus on Lázaro's personality and social climbing. By the seventh, he achieves material welfare but remains in moral poverty.
Key Themes and Elements
- Honor and reputation
- Hunger
- Religion
The story unfolds across Salamanca, Escalona, and Toledo. Lázaro serves various masters: a blind man, a clergyman, a squire, a monk, a chaplain, and an archpriest.
Style
The novel employs colloquial language and a simple, direct style. Its expressive agility and simplicity, combined with colloquialisms, sayings, antitheses, paradoxes, and euphemisms, convey Lázaro's obsession with survival.
Garcilaso de la Vega
: Toledo, grow and serve in the court of Charles I and she meets her friend Juan Boscan.
Topics:
Concepcion petarquista of love
The idealized nature, and moralized refinanda
Mythology (love, despair and death)
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Style: serene senscillo, exprs. sentimients with ease and elegance. Musicality for a language without losing melancholic tone. Use alliteration personification hyperbaton.
3 STEPS:
Influence of lyrical hispanica
Asinimalicion the Petrarchan and the new art
The prenitud (after the death of his beloved)
Works:
Sonnets and songs (pretarquista rhetorical style and topics of love songs) chose (sample flows clasico)
+ Eclogues important works:
I love + passion formal perfection
II + Este (unhappy love affairs and allegorical apology)
III, 4 nymphs embroider poem love stories