Wandering exemplarities. The Jealous Extremaduran (1613) and Penelope (1959)

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  • Rosângela Schardong Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i17p535-560

Keywords:

exemplarity, poetic art, mental illness, silence

Abstract

In Novelas ejemplares, Cervantes creates a fiction narrative genre, the novela corta, turning the established novel models into a new configuration, resignifying canonic esthetics and language of his time. Dalton Trevisan updates and intensifies this poetic process in his Novelas nada ejemplares, reconfiguring erring examples of the literary, esthetic and sociocultural traditions. This paper presents a comparative study of the two short stories through the analysis of their composition as exemplary narratives, from some of their structural elements and from the examination of gender relations. Regarding human relationships, which are artistically illustrated, it seems relevant to observe how the male authority and the female submission are justified, taking into consideration the current values at the time the stories were published. The way Cervantes and Trevisan portrait ill marriages in ingenious plots that censor the cultural practices of their time is remarkable.

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Author Biography

  • Rosângela Schardong, Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

    Prof.ª Adjunta da Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa (UEPG), atua no curso de Letras e no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Linguagem. Coordena o projeto de pesquisa Poética dos gêneros nas letras e artes em Língua Espanhola. Doutora em Letras pela FFLCH (USP).

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Published

2019-06-19

Issue

No. 17 (2019): (jan-jun 2019) Dossiê: Escrituras Interferidas

Section

Varia

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SCHARDONG, Rosângela. Wandering exemplarities. The Jealous Extremaduran (1613) and Penelope (1959). Caracol, São Paulo, Brasil, n. 17, p. 535–560, 2019. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i17p535-560. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/caracol/article/view/159156. Acesso em: 6 feb. 2026.