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1300
Conde Lucanor
Don Juan Manuel -
Period: 1300 to 1500
Edad Media
Conde Lucanor -
Period: 1492 to
Siglo de Oro
Period from 1942 (Christopher Columbus, end of Reconquista) to 1659 characterized by a flourishing in Spanish arts and literature that included romantecismo and barroco; Don Quijote, Garcilaso, Góngora, Quevedo -
1500
Romance de la pérdida de Alhama
Anónimo -
Period: 1500 to
Libro de caballerías
Don Quijote -
Period: 1500 to
Novela picaresca
Lazarillo de Tormes -
1520
Segunda carta de relación
Hernan Cortés -
1530
En tanto que de rosa y azucena
Garcilaso de la Vega -
1554
Lazarillo de Tormes
Anónimo -
Period: 1580 to
Conceptismo
a Baroque literary movement characterized by a rapid rhythm, directness, simple vocabulary, witty metaphors, and wordplay; multiple meanings are conveyed in a very concise manner, and conceptual intricacies are emphasized over elaborate vocabulary; Quevedo -
1582
Mientras por competir con tu cabello
Luis de Góngora -
Period: to
Renacimiento
Spanish cultural movement strongly influenced by Italian humanism; Garcilaso de la Vega -
Period: to
Culteranismo
a Baroque period literary movement characterized by ostentatious vocabulary, complex syntactical order, multiple, complicated metaphors, but highly conventional content; Góngora -
Period: to
Barroco
A 17th-century cultural and artistic movement that was the evolution of ideas and themes formulated during the Spanish Renaissance; included culteranismo and conceptismo; Góngora and Quevedo in Spain + Sor Juana in Mexico -
Don Quijote
Miguel de Cervantes -
Miré los muros de la patria mía
Francisco de Quevedo -
El burlador de Sevilla
Tirso de Molina -
Period: to
Neoclasicismo
Movement in which writers looked back to figures such as Garcilaso and Quevedo and were inspired by classical ideals; later prompted a negative reaction from romanticists, who were themselves criticized by realists -
Hombres necios que acusáis
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz -
Period: to
Romanticismo
In response to neoclassicism, this movement focused on the beauty of imagination, the irregular nature of human spirit, and the natural world; Rima LIII (Bécquer), En una tempestad (Heredia) -
Period: to
Costumbrismo
A literary interpretation of local everyday life and customs (19th century); romantic interest in extravagant expression + realistic, precise focus on a particular time and place; preceded (and led to) both Romanticism and Realism -
En una tempestad
José Heredia -
Volverán las oscuras golodrinas
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer -
Nuestra América
José Martí -
Period: to
Modernismo
at first: aristocratic narcissism, cosmopolitan, intricate language (romantic influences), exotic images (palaces, swans, etc.)
later: more interest in political and social issues; A Roosevelt (Rubén Darío), Nuestra Améréica (José Martí) -
Period: to
Existencialismo
philosophy/literature focused on the belief that humans are powerful and are therefore responsible for what happens to them and have the ability to create individual meaning for themselves; Unamuno, Borges -
Period: to
Generación del 98
A group of novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish-American War; criticism, ideals, creativity; included Miguel de Unamuno (religious themes), Antonio Machado (personal and universal themes) -
He andado muchos caminos
Antonio Machado -
A Roosevelt
Rubén Darío -
Period: to
Naturalismo
an outgrowth of realism that is concerned less with the individual and more with humanity as a whole and with the fact that human reality is at the mercy of the natural environment - tends to seem more intense than realism; introduced in Spain by Emilia Pardo Bazán -
El hijo
Horacio Quiroga -
Peso ancestral
Alfonsina Storni -
Period: to
Vanguardismo
avant-garde movements of literary experimentation; includes the surrealist movement (concerned with dreams and hallucinations); Pablo Neruda, Dragún, Lorca -
Las medias rojas
Emilia Pardo Bazán -
Prendimiento de Antoñito el Camborio en el camino de Sevilla
Frederico García Lorca -
San Manuel Bueno, mártir
Miguel de Unamuno -
Period: to
Realismo mágico
used magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations; El ahogado más hermoso del mundo, el hijo, dos palabras, chac mool -
Balada de dos abuelos
Nicolás Guillén -
Walking around
Pablo Neruda -
La casa de Bernarda Alba
Frederico García Lorca -
A Julia de Burgos
Julia de Burgos -
Borges y yo
Jorge Luis Borges -
El sur
Jorge Luis Borges -
Period: to
Postmodernismo
Literature that aimed to surpass modernism using paradox, questionable narrators, fantasy, etc.; mostly after WWII; includes magic realism, theater of the absurd , and feminist literature
Dos palabras, el hombre que se convirtio en perro, rosa montero -
Period: to
Realismo
literary movement during second half of 19th century concerned with analyzing reality and presenting things as realistically as possible; El hijo, La casa de Bernarda Alba -
No oyes ladrar los perros
Juan Rulfo -
Chac Mool
Carlos Fuentes -
La noche boca arriba
Julio Cortázar -
Visión de los vencidos
Miguel León-Portilla -
Period: to
Boom
a flourishing of literature, poetry and criticism in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s (period of turmoil- Dirty War in Argentina; Cuban Missile Crisis); notable for magical realism -
La siesta del martes
Gabriel García Márquez -
Mi caballo mago
Sabine Ulibarrí -
El hombre que se convirtió en perro
Osvaldo Dragún -
El ahogado más hermoso del mundo
Gabriel García Márquez -
...y no se lo tragó la tierra + La noche buena
Tomás Rivera -
Mujer negra
Nancy Morejón -
Dos palabras
Isabel Allende -
Como la vida misma
Rosa Montero