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 contribution | The beauty of the ugly: Re-reading the persiles episodein romein the light of the spanish english lady |
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Original language | Spanish |
Pages (from-to) | 343-354 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Edad de Oro |
Volume | 40 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2021 |
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Keywords
- Beauty
- Poetics of border crossing
- The Spanish English Lady
- The Trails of Persiles and Sigismunda
- Ugliness