Le cosmos dans les Novelas ejemplaresde Cervantès
What is the place of the cosmos in stories as full of humanity as those of the Novelas ejemplares? Precious little if the cosmos is defined, according to its ancient etymology, as the place of order, or as an unstable equilibrium between the four elements. The article examines this lack of an elemen...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Casa de Velázquez
2004-04-01
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| Series: | Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/mcv/1227 |
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| Summary: | What is the place of the cosmos in stories as full of humanity as those of the Novelas ejemplares? Precious little if the cosmos is defined, according to its ancient etymology, as the place of order, or as an unstable equilibrium between the four elements. The article examines this lack of an elementary system in the novels and questions the reasons for it. It reveals a world separate from the other elements, conceived as a flat expanse, which can be traversed by essentially mobile people, or as resistant but manipulable matter, on which certain people imprint shapes born of their sick subjectivity —a new literary terrain marked by cosmography rather than by the cosmos, for a genre which Cervantes, in his prologue, declares to be decidedly modern. |
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| ISSN: | 0076-230X 2173-1306 |