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Picaresque novel. The picaresque novel ( Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for ' rogue ' or 'rascal') is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the adventures of a roguish but "appealing hero", usually of low social class, who lives by his wits in a corrupt society. [1] Picaresque novels typically adopt the form of "an episodic prose narrative ...
Spanish oral literature was doubtless in existence before Spanish texts were written. This is shown by the fact that different authors in the second half of the 11th century could include, at the end of poems written in Arabic or Hebrew , closing verses that, in many cases, were examples of traditional lyric in a Romance language, often ...
A rhymed couplet closes, giving the moral of the story. Origin of stories and influence on later literature. Many of the stories written in the book are the first examples written in a modern European language of various stories, which many other writers would use in the succeeding centuries.
Spanish literature. Cervantes 's Don Quixote is considered the most emblematic work in the canon of Spanish literature and a founding classic of Western literature. Spanish literature generally refers to literature ( Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of ...
La muñeca menor. La muñeca menor (1972), also known as, The Youngest Doll is a short story written by Rosario Ferré. The story is told in third person narrative, and is part of a larger group of published work in her book of short stories, "Papeles de Pandora", this is one of the most famous of those short stories.
The Spanish Renaissance began with the unification of Spain by the Catholic Monarchs and included the reigns of Carlos I and Felipe II. For this reason, it is possible to distinguish two stages: Reign of Carlos I: New ideas are received and the Italian Renaissance is imitated. Reign of Felipe II: The Spanish Renaissance withdraws into itself ...
Novelas ejemplares ("Exemplary Novels") is a series of twelve novellas that follow the model established in Italy. [1] The series was written by Miguel de Cervantes between 1590 and 1612 and printed in Madrid in 1613 by Juan de la Cuesta. Novelas ejemplares followed the publication of the first part of Don Quixote.
Lourdes Yupangco Castrillo-Brillantes is a Filipina writer in the Spanish language, professor, and a Premio Zobel awardee in 1998. She has authored works such as 81 Años del Premio Zobel (81 Years of the Premio Zobel), which documented the history of the Premio Zobel and its winners; and the Tesoro Literario de Filipinas, a compilation of Filipino short stories written in the 20th century.