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El concepto de admiratio y lo grotesco en el Quijote

1989; Cervantes Society of America; Volume: 9; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3138/cervantes.9.1.017

1943-3840

Eduardo Urbina,

Cultural and Mythological Studies

This is a study the role of admiratio in the Quijote in connection with the reactions elicited by the knight and the creation of a parodic text capable of producing at once wonderment and laughter. The many instances of the use of admiratio are analyzed and classified into three categories: positive, negative, and ambivalent. This last one is then seen as the means to reconcile the marvelous and the verisimilar in the narrative, and is associated with the ambivalence in response characteristic of the grotesque mode.