Type variations in three authors: studies on humour

• Autores: Teresa Guerra Bosch
• Localización: Philologica canariensia, ISSN 1136-3169, Nº 2-3, 1996-1997, págs. 117-136
• Idioma: español
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  • español

    Este estudio sigue la evolución que sufre un tipo en las manos de tres autores geográfica e históricamente distantes. Ariosto transforma un cortés y exquisito caballero en un animal salvaje, epítome del loco. Cervantes, por su lado, transforma a un hidalgo loco en el paradigma del idealismo que arriesga su vida por sus ideales. Y Swift continuando con la parodia degrada al tipo quijotesco convirtiéndolo en un tonto.

  • English

    This study foUows the evolution experienced by a type at the hands of three writers geographically and historically distant from one another. Ariosto turns a sensitive and chivalric knight into a wild beast, the epitome of the madman. Cervantes takes a madman, capable of seeing in his prosaic surroundings the chivalric vi'orld of the books of knighthood, and transforms him into a type of his own, the ideaUstic knight who will always fight for his ¡deals in a world where there is no room for them. And Swift by simply paroding his sources turns this idealistic quixote into a quixotic fool.