Unit 9 Lesson 2: ¿Ves telenovelas?

Question 1

What is a telenovela

Answer 1

A telenovela is what we know in English as a soap opera. Its name is just that: tele for “television,” and novela for “novel,” so it’s a televised novel.

Question 2

Of course, the most popular telenovelas in the Spanish-speaking world are from Latin America.

Answer 2

Telenovelas from Argentina and México are extremely popular.

Question 2

Telenovela vs soap opera

Answer 2

The stories in U.S. soap operas never end. In the telenovela, however, the story does end; Spanish telenovelas are complete stories.

Question 3

There are several different types of telenovelas

Answer 3

A lot of them center on working. For example, the telenovela that I watch is set in a hospital. Some of them also feature relationships along socioeconomic or class lines; for example a poor man or woman falls in love with a wealthy man or woman, and the relationship creates drama between the different families. There are also love stories set in different periods in history, as well as stories that feature more suspense and mystery.

Question 4

I also enjoy the series that are based on literary works. These are similar to what we in Los Estados Unidos know as a

Answer 4

“miniseries.”

Question 5

Emilia Pardo Bazán early life

Answer 5

Emilia Pardo Bazán was born in the mid-nineteenth century. She wrote poems at the young age of 9 and published her first short story at the age of 15. She received an excellent education, and she was well-traveled. From a very young age, she read and wrote, which were activities that were not common for girls during that time period.

Question 6

Emilia Pardo Bazán

Answer 6

She was a gallega writer from La Coruña, Galicia, in España.

Question 7

She wrote her most famous novel, Los Pazos de Ulloa, in 1886. The novel was grounded in realism.

Answer 7

The novel details the life and history of an aristocratic family. Main themes of the novel include country life, social class, and caciquismo, which was a system of political rule in the countryside. Another principal theme in Pardo Bazán’s work is naturalism set in the backdrop of the gallego countryside of northwestern España.

Question 8

Throughout her life, Bazán wrote hundreds of short stories and 18 novels. She was the first woman to be granted the honor of a chair at the

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the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, or University of Central Madrid, but she was still denied the honor of being the first woman to be a member of the Real Academia Española. S