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🏇Unit 1​
La época medieval
🛳Unit 2
El siglo XVI
🖌 Unit 3​
El siglo XVII
🎨Unit 4​
La literatura romántica, realista y naturalista

●​ Hist context: Baroque period, Catholic ●​ Hist and Lit Context: Romanticism
●​ Hist context: Golden Age of Spain, Church power, Spanish Golden Age, emerged in the late 18th and early 19th
●​ Hist Context:5th-15th centuries.
expansion and exploration, Spanish exploration and colonization in the centuries as a response to the
Christianity, feudalism, and Western
Inquisition. Americas Enlightenment and the Industrial
Roman Empire collapsed. Start of
●​ Lit context: Renaissance influence, ●​ Lit context: Golden Age of Spanish Revolution. Realism emerged in the
Reconquista (reclaim Spain from
humanism, individualism, emergence of the literature, Baroque style characterized by mid-19th century as a reaction against
Muslims
printing press. ornate and complex language, themes of Romanticism. Naturalism in the late 19th
●​ Lit Context: Literature was largely
●​ Key Lit Figs: Garcilaso de la Vega, Francisco religious devotion, honor, and love century as an extension of Realism.
religious and focused on the Church
de Quevedo, Luis de Góngora, and Miguel de ●​ Key lit Figs: Francisco de Quevedo, Miguel ●​ Key Lit Figs: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, ,
and biblical stories.
Cervantes. Leon-Portilla, Luis de Góngora, Sor Juana Emilia Pardo Bazán,
●​ Key Lit Figs: Don Juan Manuel
●​ Key Lit works: Lazarillo de Tormes, Soneto Inés de la Cruz ●​ Key Lit Works: “Las medias rojas”, “En
●​ Key Lit Works: Conde Lucanor,
CLXVI, Salmo XVII, and Don Quijote de la ●​ Key Lit works, "El burlador de Sevilla" , una Tempestad”
Romance de la pérdida de Alhama
Mancha "Soneto CLXVI" ,"Hombres necios que ●​ Lit Themes Love, passion, nature, the
●​ Lit Themes: Religion and spirituality,
●​ Lit themes: exploration of human emotions acusáis” supernatural, individualism. Social
Chivalry and honor, Loyalty and
and experiences, the role of the individual in ●​ Lit themes: human nature, the search for critique, human condition, everyday life,
betrayal, Love and romance,National
society, satire and social criticism, religious identity, the role of women, the struggle regionalism, gender roles. Determinism,
identity and pride
and philosophical debates. for power and justice, the inevitability of harsh reality, social inequality,
death and decay. environmental effects on behavior.

🤺Unit 5​ 🎭Unit 6​ 🌎Unit 7​ 🗣Unit 8​

Escritores contemporáneos de Estados
La Generación del 98 y el Modernismo Teatro y poesía del siglo XX El Boom latinoamericano
Unidos, y España

●​ Hist Context: Postmodernism, identity

●​ Hist Context: Late 19th c. Spanish
politics, and globalization shaped postwar
Generación del 98 emerged during
American literature. After Franco's
political and social upheaval. LatAm and ●​ Hist Context: The Spanish Civil War and ●​ Hist Context: LatAm literature boomed in
dictatorship ended in 1975, contemporary
Spain developed Modernismo in the Franco dictatorship shaped Spain's 20th the 1960s and 1970s during political and
Spanish literature focused on democracy,
late 19th and early 20th centuries century politics and society. The time was social upheaval. Political repression,
free expression, and regionalism.
during cultural and artistic change. marked by disillusionment and a desire to economic instability, and social inequality
●​ Lit Context: American and Spanish writers
●​ Lit Context: The Generación del 98 break from tradition. plagued LatAm.
write novels, short stories, poetry, and
mourned the past, valued Spain's ●​ Lit Context: Many 20th-century Spanish ●​ Lit Context: The Boom was a Lit
essays. Both countries' contemporary
identity, and rejected materialism and poets and playwrights experimented with movement characterized by form and
writers have addressed race, gender,
superficiality. Modern art valued new styles and forms. Politically active style experimentation and social and
sexuality, immigration, and the
aesthetics, individualism, and beauty. writers used their work to criticize society. political themes. Boom writers were
environment. Contemporary literature
●​ Key Lit Figs: Miguel de Unamuno, ●​ Key Lit Figs: Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo influenced by European modernism and
uses non-linear narratives, fragmented
Antonio Machado, Ruben Dario. Neruda, Alfonsina Storni LatAm culture and history.
structures, and multiple voices.
●​ Key Lit Works: “A Roosevelt”, “Nuestra ●​ Key Lit Works: “A Julia de Burgos”, “Walking ●​ Key Lit Figs: Gabriel García Márquez, Julio
●​ Key Lit Figs: Tomas RIvera, Rosa Montero
America”, “He andado muchos caminos” around”, “Peso Ancestral” Cortazar, Juan Rulfo
●​ Key Lit Works: “Mi caballo mago”, ...y no
●​ Lit Themes: Spain's nat’l identity, ●​ Lit Themes: Political Engagement, Social ●​ Key Lit Works: “Borges y yo”, “Dos
se lo tragó la tierra: “La noche buena”
nostalgia for the past, searching for Critique, exploration of human nature, palabras”, “La siesta del martes”
●​ Lit Themes: Identity and
truth and meaning, and tradition vs. experience with emotion, oppression, ●​ Lit Themes: Magic realism, Politics and
belonging,Memory and trauma, Power
modernity. Beauty, individualism, exploration of new styles. power, Social commentary.
and oppression, Love and relationships,
aesthetics, art's role in society, and
Nature and the environment, Politics and
rejecting convention.
social justice.