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AP Spanish Literature

By APGANG
  • 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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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