Literary MovementsBy Rodrigo Cortés.

LiteraryMovements

Renaissance literature

Natural Literature

Baroque literature

Neoclassic Literature

Romantic Literature

Realistic Literature

Renaissance literature• It is characterized by the

study of the classic Greco-Roman antiquity.

• There is a new anthropocentric vision of the world, a racionalist attitude before the life and a conception opened before this life.

• The man gets excited and also the human being.

Baroque literature• It tends to be

depressive and embitters, there is a disenchantment for the man and the human being.

• The most used topic is the fleetingness of the life

Neoclassic Literature• It is outlined by the

return of the Greco-Roman roots.

• There is a predominance of the reason before the emotive things.

• The perfection of the forms is looked, and the art has a principally didactic function.

Leandro Fernández de Moratín, “El Si de las niñas”

Romantic Literature• It is born as an

answer to the Neoclassicism.

• It predominates the emotive thing over the reason.

• Exotic places appear.• The individual “ I ”

takes importance before “ the others “.

José Zorrilla, “Don Juan Tenorio”

Natural Literature

• It arises as response to the romanticism.

• There is preference on the topics that develop in low environment.

ÉMILE ZOLA, “Naná”

Realistic Literature

• Does not differ from the naturalism, except in that describes the environment alone.

Forefronts

Creationism

Dadaism Surrealism

Futurism

They arise at the beginning of the 20th century, and are characterized by a total opposition of the existing movements.