Spanish literature
Don Quixote's tradition
Spanish literature encompasses written works produced in the Spanish language, primarily from Spain but sometimes including Latin American literature.
The tradition spans from medieval epic poetry like *El Cantar de Mio Cid* through the Golden Age of Cervantes and Lope de Vega to modern writers like García Lorca and Cela.
She specialized in Spanish literature of the seventeenth century.
Spain's peak artistic era
- BaroqueOrnate artistic period
- comediaSpanish-language play
- auto sacramentalAllegorical Spanish religious drama
- honor codeConduct standards for students
Delusional self-proclaimed knight-errant
- Sancho PanzaSquire to a knight-errant
- La ManchaSpanish historical region
- windmillsRotating vaned power structures
- quixoticImpractically pursuing lofty goals
chivalry · hidalgo · Rocinante · picaresque · knight-errant · tilting · satire · parody
Love and its excitement
Worldview excluding the supernatural
- social critiqueExamination of societal problems
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- MadridSpain's governmental seat
- provincial lifeExistence in rural areas
Siglo de Oro
Spain's peak artistic era
- BaroqueOrnate artistic period
- comediaSpanish-language play
- auto sacramentalAllegorical Spanish religious drama
honor code · mysticism · sonnet · romance · décima
Don Quixote
Delusional self-proclaimed knight-errant
- Sancho PanzaSquire to a knight-errant
- La ManchaSpanish historical region
- windmillsRotating vaned power structures
quixotic · chivalry · hidalgo · Rocinante · picaresque · knight-errant · tilting · satire · parody · idealism
romance
Love and its excitement
Cervantes
- MendozaWestern Argentine province
- picaresqueRascally adventure narrative style
naturalism
Worldview excluding the supernatural
- social critiqueExamination of societal problems
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- MadridSpain's governmental seat
provincial life · regionalism · verisimilitude · 19th century · determinism
existential angst
Distress over life's meaninglessness
- spiritual crisisProfound doubt about meaning
tragicomedy
Genre blending sorrow and mirth
- Hispanic WorldSpain, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Peru
- SpainMadrid, Barcelona, Sevilla, Valencia, Granada
- Spanish Cultureflamenco, paella, Goya, tapas, bullfighting
- world literatureFrench novels, Russian novels, Japanese fiction, translated works, British novels
- Hispanic StudiesCervantes, Don Quixote, Goya, Velazquez, Picasso
- Mediterranean LiteratureHomer, Virgil, Dante, Cervantes, Odyssey
Spanish literatureJapanese literature
Writing from Nippon
Indian literature · African literature · English literature · Russian literature · German literature
Spanish literatureLatin American literature
Books from Spanish-speaking Americas
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