Terror and Tragic Virtue: A Language of Pain in La doble historia del Doctor Valmy

• Autores: Jennifer Duprey
• Localización: Bulletin of Hispanic studies ( Liverpool. 2002 ), ISSN 1475-3839, ISSN-e 1478-3398, Vol. 95, Nº. 2, 2018, págs. 163-182
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article argues that, on the one hand, at the centre of the dramatic structure of La doble historia del Doctor Valmy by Antonio Buero Vallejo there is a power of ideology that functions as a vector of the play’s tragic end. It is a power of ideology that mirrors a socio-political discourse that strategically intertwines terror and virtue in its quest for justice. Consequently justice, which is a political virtue, becomes tragic virtue. On the other hand, it proposes that the play’s ‘poliethical’ (political and ethical) aspect is articulated through a semantic system of meaning that I denominate ‘a language of pain’.