La literatura española hasta el Siglo de Oro.

Abstract

The cultural manifestations of a people are, without a doubt, the safest way to get to know their civilization. Thanks to the help of writing, that instrument so fundamental to progress and which in such a perfect way expresses and perpetuates thought and feeling, we possess a series of documents that alone summarize a heroic and decisive period in the history of a people or nation. Much has been discussed about the possibility of defining the permanent characters of a country's literature. Cultures change and reflect at every moment the dominant currents in the historical environment in which they are inscribed. This guide text aims to contribute to the knowledge of the Spanish literary past, presenting a living and updated summary of the evolution of Spanish literature, stopping to define the characters of each period, studying the most significant phenomena along with the works and writers that best represent it, taking as a starting point its background and origins and ending in the so-called Golden Age. We want to place the reader in a dynamic attitude towards literature, developing its creative possibilities and encouraging its research capacity, since in order to broaden its general culture it needs to enter with interest into the world, for so many wonderful reasons, of the great writers of our language.