Spanish literature

play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1635)

literature written in the Spanish language from Spain

Spanish poet (1808-1842)

Spanish author and playwright

work by Juan Manuel van Peñafiel

epic poem

A kharja or kharjah ( ; ; ; also known as a markaz 'center'), is the final couple of abyāt, or verses, of a muwaššaḥ ( 'girdle'), a poem or song of the strophic lyric genre from al-Andalus. The kharja can be in a language that is different from the body; a muwaššaḥ in literary Arabic might have a kharja in vernacular Andalusi Arabic or in a mix of Arabic and Andalusi Romance, while a muwaššaḥ in Hebrew might contain a kharja in Arabic, Romance, Hebrew, or a mix.

thumb|right|José Jiménez Aranda (1837–1903): The Bullring (1870)

In Spanish and Latin American literature, a is a short statement, usually one sentence, in which the author expresses a philosophical, pragmatic, or humorous idea in a witty and original way. A greguería is roughly similar to an aphorism or a one-liner joke in comedy. It is a rhetorical and stylistic device.

Spanish writer

legendary Iberian hero

A romancero is a collection of Spanish romances, a type of folk ballad (sung narrative). The romancero is the entire corpus of such ballads. As a distinct body of literature they borrow themes such as war, honour, aristocracy and heroism from epic poetry, especially the medieval cantar de gesta and chivalric romance, and they often have a pretense of historicity.

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In 16th- and 17th-century Spanish drama, an entremés (plural entremeses) was a short, comic theatrical performance of one act, usually played during the interlude of a performance of a long dramatic work. The entremés form later evolved into the sainete.

Spanish author

Esperpento denotes a literary style in Spanish literature first established by Spanish author Ramón María del Valle-Inclán that uses distorted descriptions of reality in order to criticize society. Leading themes include death, the grotesque, and the reduction of human beings to objects (reification). The style is marked by bitter irony. In Latin America, the author most well known for using esperpento is Mexican author Jorge Ibargüengoitia.

artistic movement

Spanish playwright (1676-1750)

literary movement

manuscript

form of dramatic literature unique to Spain

Spanish literature genre from the 12th and 13th centuries

Open-access digital library of Spanish-language texts

mediaeval literature composed by clerics

set of medieval Spanish cartularies

illuminated manuscript, c. 945, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 644

16th century book on chess

10th-century illuminated manuscript containing Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana and Jerome's commentary on the Book of Daniel

Philosophy of modern day Spain

1646 novel

Spanish epic poem

Book by Johannes van het Kruis

Spanish literature during the Age of Enlightenment

medieval Spanish literary tale of the life of Alexander the Great

historical genre of Spanish literature

illuminated manuscript containing Beatus of Liébana's Commentary on the Apocalypse

10th-century illuminated manuscript, containing the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana

10th-century illuminated manuscript, containing the Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana

the oldest known document on paper created in Europe

Postism (in Spanish Postismo) was a marginal literary and artistic movement whose name is a contraction of postsurrealismo ("post-surrealism"). As stated in the Second Manifesto, published in La Estafeta Literaria (special issue, 1946) and signed by Eduardo Chicharro Briones, Carlos Edmundo de Ory, and Silvano Sernesi.

illuminated manuscript now held in the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid

Spanish writer

book by Juan de Mena

Spanish writer