La belleza de las feas: Releyendo el episodio romano del persiles a la luz de la española inglesa

Translated title of the contribution: The beauty of the ugly: Re-reading the persiles episodein romein the light of the spanish english lady

Ruth Fine*

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Abstract

The present work analyzes the specular relationship between two episodes present in The Spanish English Lady and the Persiles respectively: The poisoning of the heroines, which results in the loss of their beauty and their near death. I claim that both representations of a transitory ugliness configure a game of parallels and mirroring inversions, which constitutes a call to reflection on the paradoxes of the opposites beauty / ugliness both in these novels and beyond. Finally, it will also be suggested that these episodes convey projections of a meta-poetic order, responding in their modalities to the Cervantine aesthetics that I identify as the poetics of border crossing.

Translated title of the contributionThe beauty of the ugly: Re-reading the persiles episodein romein the light of the spanish english lady
Original languageSpanish
Pages (from-to)343-354
Number of pages12
JournalEdad de Oro
Volume40
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021

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Keywords

  • Beauty
  • Poetics of border crossing
  • The Spanish English Lady
  • The Trails of Persiles and Sigismunda
  • Ugliness

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