This is the Movement Characteristics Page

In this portion of the Final exam you will be given a list of the four cultural movements or periods we have looked at (Costumbrismo; Realism/Naturalism/Positivism; Modernismo; 20th Century). You will then be given a series of characteristics and will be asked to associate them with the appropriate movement or period. If you would like to see the answers to the characteristics below click on the "Answer" pop-up box.

Stress on "order and progress"

With national consolidation accomplished, there is a search for refinement in literature

Continuing consolidation of national identities

Ivory-tower escapism

Focus equally on bad and good.

Latin concern over losing identity to Anglo-Saxon influences (Nordomania)

Focus on social problems and then attempt to correct them

"Closing" of the Argentine pampas by barbed wire and the railroads

Literature of fantasy and imagination, including surrealism and psychological themes.

"Art for art's sake"; form is more important than content. Emphasis on the beautiful, the musical, the exotic

An original Latin American movement, although there are influences from France (Parnassianism, symbolism)

Social protest art

Rational and "scientific" progress

Feminism

Great use of symbols, metaphors, poetic imagery.

Influenced by Emile Zola (France), Gorki (Russia)

Focus on the quaint, picturesque custom.

Anti-modernist (post-modernist) current: simplicity and sincerity.

Many social, political, economic, cultural changes.

Is a bridge between the sentimentalism of Romanticism and the the more objective tendencies which follow

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