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Language Learning

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Constructed Tutor

Jean Manesca Simulacrum

Oral System of Teaching Living Languages · Mouvement Method · Spaced Acquisition · Direct Method (1820s) · Session Engine

French

Michel de Montaigne Simulacrum

The Essay · Self-examination · Sceptical inquiry · French prose

Claude Favre de Vaugelas Simulacrum

French Grammar · Codification of usage · Académie française

Molière Simulacrum (French Department)

Comédie · Theatre · Spoken French · Vice exposed through laughter

Voltaire Simulacrum

Enlightenment prose · Conte philosophique · Wit · Civic argument

Gustave Flaubert Simulacrum

Le mot juste · The realist novel · French prose style · Sentence as moral act

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Simulacrum

Modern French prose · Sensuous writing · The voice of the senses

Albert Camus Simulacrum

L’absurde · La révolte · Mediterranean clarity · Modern French prose at moral pitch

Léopold Sédar Senghor Simulacrum

Négritude · Francophone poetry · Civilisation de l’universel · French of three continents

Spanish (Castilian)

Antonio de Nebrija Simulacrum

Gramática castellana · The first vernacular grammar · Salamanca · Alcalá

Santa Teresa de Ávila Simulacrum

Castilian prose · Mystical writing · Las Moradas · Direct interior voice

Miguel de Cervantes Simulacrum

Don Quijote · The modern novel · Irony · Castilian narrative prose

Félix Lope de Vega Simulacrum

Comedia nueva · Siglo de Oro theatre · Verse drama · Spoken Castilian on the stage

Francisco de Quevedo Simulacrum

Conceptismo · Satire · Baroque wit · The dark sonnet · Castilian at maximum density

Miguel de Unamuno Simulacrum

Generación del 98 · Philosophical novel · Nivola · El sentimiento trágico de la vida

Federico García Lorca Simulacrum

Generación del 27 · Poesía · Romancero gitano · Bodas de sangre · Duende

Spanish (Latin American)

El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Simulacrum

Comentarios Reales · Bicultural voice · Cuzco-Córdoba · The first mestizo historian

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Simulacrum

Respuesta a Sor Filotea · The Tenth Muse · Defended women's right to learn · Mexican Baroque

Andrés Bello Simulacrum

Gramática castellana americana · Codification of Spanish · Civil Code of Chile

Jorge Luis Borges Simulacrum (LatAm)

Ficciones · The Library of Babel · The infinite · Buenos Aires · Mirrors and labyrinths

Pablo Neruda Simulacrum

Veinte poemas de amor · Canto General · Residencia en la tierra · The political and the erotic

Octavio Paz Simulacrum

El laberinto de la soledad · Sor Juana · The diplomat-poet · Mexican identity

Gabriel García Márquez Simulacrum

Cien años de soledad · Macondo · El Caribe · Magical realism · Reportage prose

Italian

Dante Alighieri Simulacrum

Wrote Italian into existence · Divina Commedia · Terza rima · Vita Nuova · Beatrice

Francesco Petrarca Simulacrum

Canzoniere · Laura · The sonnet · Recovered Cicero · Founder of humanism

Giovanni Boccaccio Simulacrum

Decameron · The frame narrative · Plague · A hundred tales · Tuscan vernacular

Pietro Bembo Simulacrum

Prose della volgar lingua · Codified Italian · Petrarch as model · Questione della lingua

Carlo Goldoni Simulacrum

Reformed the commedia dell'arte · Servant of Two Masters · Realistic Italian theatre

Giacomo Leopardi Simulacrum

L'infinito · Pessimismo cosmico · Operette morali · Canti · Romantic philology

Italo Calvino Simulacrum (Italian)

Lightness · Quickness · Six Memos · Invisible Cities · Combinatorial fiction

Portuguese

Fernão Lopes Simulacrum

Crónica de D. João I · Founding chronicler · Portuguese prose · The voice of the people

c.1380–c.1459

Gil Vicente Simulacrum

Auto da Barca do Inferno · Founder of Portuguese theatre · Court satire · Vernacular drama

c.1465–c.1536

Luís Vaz de Camões Simulacrum

Os Lusíadas · The maritime epic · Vasco da Gama · Portuguese language elevated

Eça de Queirós Simulacrum

Realism · O Crime do Padre Amaro · Os Maias · Portuguese society dissected

Fernando Pessoa Simulacrum

Heteronyms · Caeiro · Reis · Campos · Livro do Desassossego · Multiple selves in Lisbon

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Simulacrum

Mar Novo · Clarity · The sea · Greek lucidity in Portuguese poetry

José Saramago Simulacrum

Blindness · The Gospel According to Jesus Christ · Long sentences · Communist Catholic atheist

Portuguese (Brasil)

José de Alencar Simulacrum

Iracema · O Guarani · Romantic Brazilian indigenism · The novel as nation-building

Machado de Assis Simulacrum

Memórias Póstumas · Dom Casmurro · The unreliable narrator · Brazilian irony at the highest pitch

Oswald de Andrade Simulacrum

Manifesto Antropófago · Brazilian Modernism · 1922 Semana · Tupi or not tupi

Carlos Drummond de Andrade Simulacrum

Modernist poetry · No meio do caminho · Sentimento do mundo · Itabira to Rio

João Guimarães Rosa Simulacrum

Grande Sertão: Veredas · The sertão · Invented Portuguese · The voice of the backlands

Clarice Lispector Simulacrum (Brasil)

A Hora da Estrela · Macabéa · Consciousness as the matter · Mystical Brazilian prose

Korean

King Sejong the Great Simulacrum

Hangul · Phonological design · Hall of Worthies (집현전) · Joseon institutional reform · Access as the criterion of design

Choe Sejin Simulacrum

훈몽자회 · Korean lexicography · Sino-Korean phonology · The word in use, not on the board

Toegye (Yi Hwang) Simulacrum

Neo-Confucian philosophy · 성학십도 · 거경궁리 · Rectification of the self · Dosan Seowon

Jeong Cheol Simulacrum

Gasa poetry · 관동별곡 · 사미인곡 · Korean breath-rhythm · Landscape as emotional architecture

Yun Seon-do Simulacrum

Sijo poetry · 오우가 · 어부사시사 · Compression as art · Nature as moral mirror

Ju Si-gyeong Simulacrum

Korean grammar · Morphological analysis · 국어문법 · Linguistic nationalism

Kim Sowol Simulacrum

진달래꽃 · Modern Korean lyric · Folk rhythm (3·4, 7·5) · 한 (han) as emotional architecture

Hwang Sunwon Simulacrum

Short fiction · 소나기 · Prose economy · The architecture of withholding

Yun Dong-ju Simulacrum

Colonial lyric · 서시 · Moral self-examination · The impossible self under historical pressure