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Gongorism

Meaning of "Gongorism" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GONGORISM

From Spanish gongorismo.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF GONGORISM

ˈɡɒŋɡəˌrɪzəm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GONGORISM

noun
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gongorism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GONGORISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Luis de Góngora

Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time. His style is characterized by what was called culteranismo, also known as Gongorism. This style existed in stark contrast to Quevedo's conceptismo.

Definition of Gongorism in the English dictionary

The definition of Gongorism in the dictionary is an affected literary style characterized by intricate language and obscurity. Other definition of Gongorism is an example of this.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GONGORISM

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GONGORISM

Goncourt · Gond · Gondar · Gondi · gondola · gondolier · Gondwana · Gondwanaland · gone · gone a million · gone out · goneness · goner · gonfalon · gonfalonier · gonfanon · gong · gonglike · Gongorist · Gongoristic

WORDS THAT END LIKE GONGORISM

adiaphorism · algorism · anachorism · antiterrorism · apriorism · bio-terrorism · chorism · colorism · cyberterrorism · deteriorism · diorism · ecoterrorism · hectorism · meliorism · meteorism · pelorism · phosphorism · probabiliorism · rigorism · tourism · tutorism

Synonyms and antonyms of Gongorism in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Gongorism» into 25 languages

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Gongorism
1,325 millions of speakers
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gongorismo
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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gongorismo
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Gongorism
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gongorisme
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Gongorisme
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Gongorismus
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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Gongorism
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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GONGORISM»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Gongorism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GONGORISM»

Discover the use of Gongorism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Gongorism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A New History of Spanish Literature
In some instances, brutality and ugliness, especially in the picaresque novel, reached the point of caricature. 2. Gongorism, named after Luis de Gongora, was the principal literary Baroque style and employed complicated grammatical devices ...
Richard Eugene Chandler, Kessel Schwartz, 1991
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The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Textual evidence ...
6, p. i6; Poetry, Gongorism and a Thousand Years (Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, October i949); SM. Text: ams., corr. New York Times and Poetry, Gongorism and a Thousand Years. In late i947 the New York Times, responding to the ...
Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt, 1988
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The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Poetry 1903-1920, ...
POETRY,. GONGORISM,. AND. A. THOUSAND. YEARS. [i948]. I. t used to be argued, and I think it is still accepted by many people, that poetry is a flower of racial childhood, and must wither away as civilization advances. For civilization is  ...
Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt, 2000
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Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1928
28, 1928; A— Foreign 37213; Gyldendalske bog- handel, Nordisk forlag. (28- 14695) 6103 Kane, Elisha Kent. Gongorism and the golden age; a study of exuberance and unrestraint in the arts, by Elisha K. Kane, with decorations by the author.
Library of Congress. Copyright Office, 1929
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Visions of Empire in Colonial Spanish American Ekphrastic ...
... (Fernández 2004, 181).15 While there is little question that some formal aspect of Gongorism's extreme experimentalism played a role in its diffusion in the Americas, I think it necessary to ask whether, in focusing so heavily on its obscurity, ...
Kathryn M. Mayers, 2012
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Spanish literature
INTRODUCTION OF GONGORISM INTO SPANISH PROSE — BALTHASAR GRACIAN. The elegant simplicity of the historical style adopted by Antonio de Solis, forms, with the Gongorism which about this time crept into Spanish prose ...
Friedrich Bouterwek, 1823
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Milton
Gongorism is "baroque and affected style whose chief characteristics are : latinistic vocabulary and syntax, intricate metaphors, excessive hyperbole, rich colour images, mythological allusions and a general strangeness of diction" ( Cuddon, ...
Sunil Kumar Sarker, 1999
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History of Spanish and Portuguese literature, tr. by T. Ross
INTRODUCTION OF GONGORISM INTO SPANISH PROSE — BALTHASAR GRACIAN. The elegant simplicity of the historical style adopted by Antonio de Solis, forms, with the Gongorism which about this time crept into Spanish prose ...
Friedrich Bouterwek, 1823
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History of Spanish Literature
Nothing more was necessary than a simple and unaffected narration, to cause the interest naturally belonging to the subject to be strongly felt. INTRODUCTION OF GONGORISM INTO SPANISH PROSE BALTHASAR GRACIAN. The elegant ...
Friedrich Bouterwek, 1847
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Essays on the Literary Baroque in Spain and Spanish America
the production of solitude What was involved in the seventeenth-century debates on Gongorism and in its reception by the literary elite of the Spanish imperial state and ideological apparatus was not simply a matter of style. The much argued ...
John Beverley, 2008

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GONGORISM»

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Santa Fe teen shows "affinity" for spelling but doesn't reach semifinals
Contestant Caleb Adams of Danville, Va., spelled “gongorism” to the beat of his foot tapping to each letter. Another boy lost out when he started ... «Santa Fe New Mexican, May 15»
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GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
Gongorism disguised as primitivism. And, being a proper son of Darío, García Márquez has gone on to embrace in his mad spirit the glories of ... «New York Times, Jun 09»
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