El grupo Nos y el movimiento prerrafaelista britanico: Estudio de afinidades y acercamientos. (Spanish text)
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Title
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El grupo Nos y el movimiento prerrafaelista britanico: Estudio de afinidades y acercamientos. (Spanish text)
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Identifier
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AAI9029968
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identifier
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9029968
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Creator
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Pinto-Machado Duarte-Silva Barry, Luisa.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Isaias Lerner
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Date
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1990
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Romance | Literature, Comparative | Fine Arts
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Abstract
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The appreciation of unadulterated Nature and the consequent mystical pantheism, the revival of the Middle Ages and the national past, the promotion of handicraft and popular culture are some of the more important subjects that underlie Galician literature throughout its history. In England, these subjects were especially the concerns of the Pre-Raphaelite movement in its two phases--the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and William Morris' Arts & Crafts.;Fifty years after Ruskin and the flourishing of Pre-Raphaelitism in England, the Xeracion Nos in Galicia, in an attempt to achieve cultural and political independence of from the rest of Spain, focused on its region's identity: Unfulfilled by the artistic scene prevailing in the rest of Europe, Vicente Risco and his "brothers" made a conscientious effort to promote the essence of Galician culture. They encouraged the use of their native language in their journal Nos, they turned to the oral tradition of their people and to popular literature (the Atlantic Ocean, the "saudade" or yearning, the "meigas" or sorcerers); they identified with Ireland in their nationalistic strife and they felt part of a "celtic" community that was foreign to the rest of Spain.;They cherished their landscape. They searched for the Truth and the Divine in Nature and made nature the object of their Art and the symbol of their social concerns. The preservation of ruralism led them to the revival of the Middle Ages, and to the protection of manual labour and of Galician handicraft.;Just like in the case of the Pre-Raphaelites, mysticism, occultism, secret sects and Arthurian legends were also an important part of their lives and their literature, as can be seen from the unpublished manuscript we include in the Appendix, A Orde Galega do Sancto Graal, by Vicente Risco.;They became the representatives of Modernismo in Galicia. In the process they enhanced the affinities between the Galician culture and the British Pre-Raphaelites, who, in turn, were the underlying source of Art Nouveau, of Jugendstill and of Modernismo itself.;The Nos group was undoubtedly very much in touch with the French scene of the time, and its affinities with the British movement represent only a small and hereto unexplored part of its artistic production. Nevertheless, we believe this aspect was an important part of the work of the Xeracion Nos: it is the aspect that most closely relates it to the Modernist movement and that better symbolizes the essence of Galician culture.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy Restricted.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.