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  2. Hopscotch (Cortázar novel) - Wikipedia

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    Hopscotch (Spanish: Rayuela) is a novel by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar.Written in Paris, it was published in Spanish in 1963 and in English in 1966. For the first U.S. edition, translator Gregory Rabassa split the inaugural National Book Award in the translation category.

  3. Romanticism in Spanish literature - Wikipedia

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    Romanticism came to Spain through Andalusia and Catalonia.. In Andalucía, the Prussian consul in Cádiz, Juan Nicolás Böhl de Faber, father of novelist Fernán Caballero, published a series of articles between 1818 and 1819 in the Diario Mercantil (Mercantile Daily) of Cádiz, in which he defended Spanish theatre of the Siglo de Oro, and was widely attacked by the neo-Classicists.

  4. Worldview - Wikipedia

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    A worldview (also world-view) or Weltanschauung is the fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the whole of the individual's or society's knowledge, culture, and point of view. [1] A worldview can include natural philosophy; fundamental, existential, and normative postulates; or themes, values, emotions, and ...

  5. Cover art - Wikipedia

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    Evocative of sorrow and excess, the haunting image has become so inextricably linked to The Great Gatsby that it still adorns the cover of F. Scott Fitzgerald's book 88 years after its debut. The iconic cover art was created by Spanish artist Francis Cugat. With the release of a big Hollywood movie, however, some printings of the book have ...

  6. Literary costumbrismo - Wikipedia

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    Larra establishes the origin of the modern literature of customs in England since Addison [5] ’s The Spectator.. Another view of the costumbrismo was the new possibility of travelling, a romantic passion that created the literary descriptive model of the libros de viajes (literally, books of traveling), usually more focused on the pictures and hackneyed things and simple impressions or ...

  7. Spanish literature - Wikipedia

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    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 is literature (Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain.

  8. Marianela (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The novel takes place in the fictional town of Socartes, Spain. The town's name refers to the philosopher Socrates, and his ideas about internal and external beauty.It tells the story of Marianela (sometimes referred to as "Nela"), a poor orphan girl with an ugly face, and her love for Pablo, a blind boy, who also has romantic feelings towards Nela.

  9. Outline of literature - Wikipedia

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    Literature can be described as all of the following: Communication – activity of conveying information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space.