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PEREZ REDONDO, Rubén José. Evolution of western literature from a sociological context. From Classical Greece to Baroque. Hallazgos [online]. 2018, vol.15, n.29, pp.207-232. ISSN 1794-3841.  https://doi.org/10.15332/s1794-3841.2018.0029.09.

Speaking about literature is to mention one of the most special features of the human being. That effort to transmit to the outside whatever our brain activity generates, has developed through history in a slow but necessary process for its advancement. Oral language needed a receptacle to contain words that would otherwise have been hanging in the air eternally. With the appearance of writing, documentary memory emerges, which is the material and non-mental register of things, and as a consequence, came literature as that which contains the letters. Overtime, literature has undergone remarkable modifications in meaning, styles, as well as its social use. The aim is to make a sociological analysis of the evolution of western literature until the 17th century, before the appearance of modern literature.

Palabras clave : literary evolution; style; social structure; literary sociology; writing.

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