“Betwixt Wisdom and Folly”: a brief analysis of the historical category of “discretion” in Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote of La Mancha
This article aims at investigating the historical category of the “discreet” in Don Quixote of La Mancha (Part I, 1605; Part II, 1615), in order to hear the 17th century voices inscribed in the discourses addressing the book’s first audience. To do so, we examine selected episodes from Cervantes’ wo...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) |
| Repositorio: | Letras (Santa Maria. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/71346 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufsm.br/letras/article/view/71346 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Discrição Juízo Prudência Loucura Dom Quixote de la Mancha Discretion Don Quixote Folly Prudence Judgment |
| Sumario: | This article aims at investigating the historical category of the “discreet” in Don Quixote of La Mancha (Part I, 1605; Part II, 1615), in order to hear the 17th century voices inscribed in the discourses addressing the book’s first audience. To do so, we examine selected episodes from Cervantes’ work together with specific terminology from contemporary dictionaries and treatises on grammar, rhetoric and poetics, mainly Sebastián Covarrubias’ Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española (1611). With this approach, we intend to avoid making anachronic interpretations which prevent a closer understanding of the characteristic semantic and symbolic fields involved in 17th century works of fiction, both in their inventive and elocutive dimensions. |
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