Flowers in Hispanic Modernism

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Lily LITVAK

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The Latin American Modernistas were inspired by certain flowers and endowed them with symbolic meanings, adding to their traditional meaning new values representative of the turn-of-the-century sensibility. Several aesthetic trends and movements - Exoticism, Pre-Raphaelism, Parnasianism, Symbolism, Decadentism determined their predilection for flowers like the chrysanthemum, the lotus, the rose, the orchid, the lily, as can be seen in their literature and art.

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LITVAK, L. “Flowers in Hispanic Modernism”. Creneida. Journal of Hispanic Literatures, no. 1, Dec. 2013, pp. 134-59, doi:10.21071/calh.v0i1.3573.
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Articles. Flowers in Spanish literature