Wandering exemplarities. The Jealous Extremaduran (1613) and Penelope (1959)
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i17p535-560Keywords:
exemplarity, poetic art, mental illness, silenceAbstract
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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