The Art of the Epic Epithets in the Cantar de Mio Cid
1974; University of Pennsylvania Press; Volume: 42; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/472614
ISSN1553-0639
Autores Tópico(s)Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
ResumoIN the Cantar de Mio Cid, epithets serve not only as mnemonic devices, as in the ballads,l or as handy time-killers while the singer thinks of the lines to come,2 but also as poetic elements which obey a definite artistic purpose. This was suggested some years ago by Mrs. Rita Hamilton's article on Epic Epithets in the Poema de Mio Cid,3 in which a close examination of the treatment of one character-Martin Antolinez-made it possible to uncover the artistic purpose behind the epithetic presentation of that burgales leal. In a recent restatement of the definition of the epic formula Edmund de Chasca has stressed context as the variable
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