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Spanish 350 Test 1
Summaries
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Don Juan Manuel | -escritor Castellano-ha escrito en la Edad Media-sus relatos son por la mayoridad didacticos |
| Lo que sucedio a un mozo que caso con una muchacha de muy mal caracterconde Lucanor pide consejo a Patronio | -Lucanor: mi deudo se queria casar con una mujer muy rica, pero de muy mal caracter. que aconsejarle?Patronio; si es capaz de hacer como un mancebo Moro, dijele SI, y si no es capaz, dijele NO. |
| Lo que sucedio a un mozo que caso con una muchacha de muy mal caracterPatronio | Emepeza a contarle el exemplum. |
| El Exemplum-Mozo | El Mozo vive con su padre y son pobres. El Moro vive con su hija de mal caracter, y son ricos.Mozo quiere salir de la pobreza y decide casarse con la muchacha con que nadie quiere casarse. |
| El Exemplum -El Moro (padre de la muchacha de mal caracter) | Knows that his daughter is evil. Says he will not be a good friend if he accepts the offer to marry. |
| It is necessary to always be the same from the beginning. | |
| El Exemplum-Mozo | After their wedding, he kills a dog, a cat and then a horse. This scares evil girl and she is his behaved wife. |
| el ExemplumHow did the young man establish authority? | -He killed the dog, the cat and then the horse. He demanded that breakfast be made in the morning. |
| El Exemplum-la Moraleja | If from the beginning you do not act how you are when you wanted. |
| Summary of Don Juan Manuel | |
| Advises Patronio not to marry the evil girl. | |
| Knows that his daughter is evil. | |
| Meaning of the story | |
| How did the young man establish authority? | |
| Ricardo Palma | Love, social class pride or honor are themes. Ironic because the value of the shirt was huge. wanted to keep his honor by saying she can't bring anything with her. |
| La camisa de Margarita | -Margarita Pareja fell in love with the poor Luis Alcázar who came to live with his rich uncle Don Honorato. Her father refuses to allow marriage |
| Margarita's father proposes that the two marry because she is so depressed. | |
| Don Honorato | Uncle says yes but she can not come into the marriage with any money. She can have an extra shirt to change into. |
| Luis Alcázar | Margarita's love |
| The shirt | The shirts' lace was worth 2,700 and the diamonds around the neckline are 30,000. |
| Teresa de la Parra | Blanca Nieves y Compañía -Born in Paris -well off venezuelans. -1889-1936-47 -novelist -lived on a hacienda, Tazón -catholic education -Mama X was first major story |
| Blanca Nieves y Compañía | Contradicting name -3rd in age and size -dark olive skin -dark eyes -black hair -legs of burning fire |
| Blanca Nieves y Compania Sisters | Aurora, Violeta, Blanca Nieves, Estrella, Rosalina and Aur Flor |
| Blanca Nieves y Compania Theme | Dad wanted boys but got six girls. The mom lived in a fairy land and despises reality and named all her kids bizarre names. She left the house only to have another baby. -gender roles. mom/dad didnt pay attention to them. social class. |
| Jorge Luis Borges | El Etnógrafo -1899-1986-87 -Argentinian writer -bilingual -poems and essays in surrealism literary journals -librarian and public lecurer -blind in 50s |
| El Etnógrafo | Fred Murdock -man of few words -study NA languages -professor advised he live on a ranch to observe the secret the shamans initiate -lived on praire for more than 2 years -took notes that he later destroyed -dreamed of bisons on full moon nights |
| Fred Murdock | could not tell the secret because he could say it in 100 different ways and contradict one another. -Its men taught him what is valid for every place and every circumstance. Got married, got divorced and now is a librarian at Yale |
| Irony of Dreams | -Dreams can go unnoticed -Interpretation of the dreams can be the key to discover the greatest secret than a human being can imagine |
| Julio Cortazar | -La noche boca arriba -1914-1984-70 -born in Belgium -Argentinian author of novels and short stories -Best known work written in France -backyard was an inspiration for some stories -was sick and spent a lot of time in bed reading |
| La Noche Boca Arriba | -Everything that happened was unpredictable -the nameless protagonist who started seeing its experiences in the small details of each of the outlines of the sensory experiences, such as delights at the taste of broth or water. |
| The night face up | the man is on his motorcycle and he crashes. in the hospital he is sleeping and waking up and trying to decipher his dreams to real life. n dreams he is in the jungle hiding from his Aztec pursuers. in the end we don't know if he lived or died. |
| Theme or Irony | worlds between reality and dreams and figuring out what is real. Insect looked like a motorcycle. Knife pressed his neck-sacrifice. He feels more comfortable in the city. |
| Juan Rulfo | No oyes ladrar los perros -1917-1986-69 -Mexican author and photographer -Pedro Páramo (1955), and El llano en llamas (1953, The Burning Plain), |
| No oyes ladrar los perros No dogs bark | His son on his back, a man travels looking for a dr. to treat the boy. characteristic beliefs and rituals. |
| Ignacio | the son who is sick and speaks less and less through the story. -“nothing but trouble, humiliation, and shame.” -wandering thief and has even murdered people, including the father’s old friend, Tranquilino, who baptized the boy. |
| Tonaya | town where there is a doctor |
| The father | his wife gives him courage. He is taking the son to a doctor for her. He asks if he hears the dogs barking because the lights are off because its night. ignacio never says he hears the dogs. |
| Theme what happened at the end? irony dad carried kid out of loyalty and the only thing the dad asked, the son didnt answer | the problematic nature of the father-son relationship. The father does not want to deal with him but does because its his son -contribute to this romantic impulse, and these elements serve in turn to heighten the force of the story’s tragic ending. |
| Ana María Matute | Pecado de omisión |
| Pecado de omisión in Sagrado | Lope and his sin of ommision- he never says what he thinks Emeterio sin of commission- he has to own or power over everyone -Lope's mother dies and his uncle has to take care of him. Emeterio never sends him to school and only lets him work for him |
| Emeterio | Makes him live in the barn. |
| Mr. Lorenzo | Former teacher -Tries to tell Emeterio how smart Lope is but he never does anything else. |
| Lope | works with |
| Roque el Mediano | retarded employee who works for Emeterio for 15 years |
| Moral of the story | People do a lot more for friends than they do for relatives. Matute's attitude toward life and people. |
| The Movie Moebius term for a certain speed, at a certain time | Recent stories, fears and oblivious through a metaphor. -30 passenger train vanishes in a closed circuit of the Buenos Aires underground system. -finding cause of dematerialization -leading topologist can not find the old scientists maps. |
| Moebius continued Finds that the documents were checked out by professor and professor put the train in that mode. | girl helps find first clue. a train can be heard but not seen. he finds out what has happened to the train but nobody can believe it. |
| Elena Poniatowska | El Recado 1932-now -born in Paris as Princess Helene Elizabeth Elena Poniatowska -Mexican journalist and author -Best known for La nochde Tlatelolco Massacre in Mexico -relates interviews with those who died in 1968 Tlatelolco massacre. |
| El recado | ?? |
| Meaning of the story | A lover goes to a soldiers house and writes him a letter. she has to leave because his neibhor is coming to turn the lights on. |
| Outcome of the story | She wishes she could be older so they could be together. |
| Narrator | writer note of note. |
| El recado Irony or theme | theme-fluid language, inside reality (metafictiones) story inside reality. type of writing. magical realism. |
| Cristina Peri Ross | El Museo de los Esfuerzos Inutiles -1941-now Uraguayan novelest, poet and author of short stories -37 works -citizen of spain -journalist -defense of civil liberties and freedom of expression |
| The museum of useless efforts A library of thick, encyclopedic volumes cataloging by year | -The efforts are movingly ordinary, not insane inventions undertaken by madmen, but a man pursuing a love for twenty years or children at the beach digging holes that are then washed away by the ocean |
| The Museum of Useless Efforts | But whether the scopes of these useless efforts are large or small, it becomes clear that what is so powerful about them is that they are stories. In this way Peri Rossi aligns herself, and by extension the reader, alongside |
| Isabel Allende | La Mujer del juez -1942 -Chilean American novelist -magic realist tradition |
| La mujer del juez | |
| Casilda | Wife of judge. Gave water to the mother. Juana la triste. killed herself bc embarrased son never came. |
| Nicolas Vidal | Bad guy. never saved his mom. |
| Hidalgo | Judge |
| summary | he hated women. destiny that he would die b/c of a woman. the mom killed herself. he killed himself. |
| Meaning of story | destiny. appearances in public and private. judge was strong in public but really his wife owned him. |
| Miguel De Unamuno | San Manuel Bueno, mártir -1864-1936-72 -essayist, poet, playwright and philosopher -Biscay, Spain -Modernist |
| San Manuel Bueno, mártir Where does it happen | Valverde de Lucerna, a small village located on the edge of an idyllic lake. Legend tells that submerged beneath that lake exists a hidden city. The physical village and the legendary city serve as symbols of the spiritual and the material. |
| San Manuel Bueno, mártir narrator | Ángela Carballino |
| San Manuel Bueno, mártir Lazaro | unbelieving brother, returns from America rich: he is dismissive of religion and anything associated with it. move his family to a largerprogressive city. mother dies, her greatest wish is for him to convert |
| San Manuel Bueno, mártir Don Manuel | he priest of their remote mountain village |
| San Manuel Bueno, mártir What do they believe in | that neither he nor Don Manuel believe in resurrection or what happens after death, although Don Manuel claims at times to believe that a person dies completely, he is fairly uncertain and vague at others. Turns into a fictous Unamuno |
| San Manuel Bueno, mártir Meaning of Story | Instead of a true novel, it can be seen as a vehicle to express various philosophical ideas. -people should believe the story instead of the words. the story means something and the words lose meaning |
| Gabriel Garcia Marquez | -1927 -is a Colombian -novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. |
| Chronicles of a death foretold summary | the death of Santiago Nasar. Angelica Vicario marries a man and he finds that she is not a virgin and her brothers kill Santiago. The narrtor is not sure if it is true b/c they were never together and he doesn't know why he was killed |
| Chronicles of a death foretold | |
| Chronicles of a death foretold | |
| Chronicles of a death foretold | |
| Chronicles of a death foretold magic realism, found destiny from the beginning. | -magic realism aspect of a warped timeline -fragmentation leading to reality and fantasy - |
| El Contexto del Relato | -En la edad media-la mujer oprimida por los hombres,mujer sin voz-la buena mujer es una que no habla, una mujer obediente-considerada ser al nivel del animal |
| El contexto del Relato | la misoginia : el odio de las mujer; en parte tiene que ver con la religion Eva (el pecado, la tentacion) y la Virgen Maria (la obediencia) |
| El contexto del Relato | teocentricismo :el centro de toto es Dios (vida, amor, procreacion, trabajo, literatura, etc) |
| Literatura didactica | facil para recordarse-ensena una moraleja-transmite un mensaje |
| Literatura didactica | Parallelismo entre-el problema que le plantea conte Lucanor a Patronio-y el exemplum(porque lo mismo ocurre en la historia y en la vida real, y el exemplum imita a la vida para transmitir una moraleja y un mensaje)ensenar como ser hombre alcaballero |
| Literatura didactica | Repeticion -cuando mata a los 3 animales-3 acciones de matar = numero perfecto de la trinidad sancta = teocentricismo -ayuda a recordarse el relato (como una cancion para los ninos) |
| El naratario (implicito) | El conde Lucanor |
| El narrador | -en tercera persona (narrador del exemplum)-Patronio (esta indroduciendo el exemplum, sigue el narrador del exemplum en 3era persona) |
| Question humoristica | referiendose al contexto, el humor dentro de la moraleja : como tiene que ser un hombre bueno (tiene que matar los animale :) ). Al final el padre de la muchacha intenta hacer lo mismo, pero sin lograr (su mujer se burla de el) |
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