M3

Question 1

What’s Modernismo?

Answer 1

Movement where capitalism, industry and superficial things where above art.

Question 2

Modernismo emerged due to…(4)

Answer 2

1.Europe crisis
2. Industrial Revolution = a more materialistic society.
3. Artists “didn’t provide anything good” to society
4. Foreign-looking = Latin America saw Europe as a role model.

Question 3

Modernismo Characteristics (5)

Answer 3

1. Rubén Darió started it
2. Own individually = denies school
3. Primarly Hispanic
4. Creative freedom - Poetry
5. Literature without nationality

Question 4

Modernismo Authors (3)

Answer 4

1. Rubén Darío
2. José Juan Tablada
3. Amado Nervo

Question 5

Avant-Garde Characteristics (3)

Answer 5

1. Artistic and ideological rebelion
2. Art intervened to change society causing the world’s modern concept
3. Broke traditions and rules in orden to evolve

Question 6

Avant-Garde New Techniques (3)

Answer 6

STRE - IN - AUTO
1. Stream of consciousness (full expression of thoughts without an order)

2. Interior Monologue (debate & inner thoughts)
3. Automatic Writing (whatever comes to mind)

Question 7

8 Avant-Garde Movements

Answer 7

1.Expresonism
2.Futurism
3.Dadaism
4.Surrealism
5.Creationism
6.Stridentism
7.De Strijl
8.Ultraist

Question 8

Science Fiction… (3)

Answer 8

1. Gives scientific explanations
2. Based on documentations
3. For justifying the unlikely events

Question 9

Science Fiction Authors (4)

Answer 9

1. Mary Shelley (Frankestein)
2. Herbert George (The Time Machine)
3. Jules Verne (Fantastic Voyage)
4. Luis Zárate (Hyperia)

Question 10

Horror Fiction Characteristics (4)

Answer 10

1. Terror = subtle and limited to emotions
2. Horror = physically horrible and dramatic changes.

3.Works with fear and phobias.
4. Dark and death

Question 11

Horror Fiction - Authors (6)

Answer 11

1. Allan Poe
2. Mary Shelly
3. Bram Stoker
4. Salvador Elizondo
5. Carlos Fuentes
6. Emilio Pacheco

Question 12

Detective Fiction Characteristic

Answer 12

Based on the PLOT
-solves the crime
-find who’s the criminal
-find’s out the motives

Question 13

Detective Fiction -First Literary Detective

Answer 13

Edgar Allan Poe
*Sherlock Holmes
*The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Question 14

Detective Fiction - What’s the Thriller?

Answer 14

A subgenre focused on more complex narratives putting the mystery as a logic game.

Question 15

Postmodernism Characteristics (3)

Answer 15

1. Breaks with the Modernism by mixing high culture with the lower one
2. Literature being unrealistic and untraditional
3. Discuss general aspects of human condition

Question 16

Postmodernism Techniques (5)

Answer 16

1. Contradiction
2. Permutation
3. Discontinuity
4. Randomness
5. Excess

Question 17

2 Important Works of Postmodernism

Answer 17

1. Slaughterhouse-Five BY Kurt Vonnegut
2. Ullyses BY James Joyce

Question 18

Latin America Boom Context

Answer 18

1. Writers from different countries
2. Distinguis : find an identity as latinos
3. Influenced by Americans and Europeans
4. Editors had a big role
   5.Time managment

Question 19

Latin America Boom - Characteristics

Answer 19

1. Name came from marketing
2. Original & innovating words
3. Commercial Phenomenon
4. Fantasy, magical and realism
5. Complex narratives
6. Texts are rather funny than solemn

Question 20

Latin America Boom - Works

Answer 20

1. Where the Air Is Clear BY Carlos Fuentes
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude BY Gabriel García
3. Julio Cortazar’s Hopscotch