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Dueñas and Doncellas: A Study of the Doña Rodríguez Episode in Don Quijote

Dueñas and Doncellas: A Study of the Doña Rodríguez Episode in Don Quijote

Marianella, Conchita Hardman

Paperback

Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu, Book 209

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0807892092
ISBN13: 9780807892091
Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
Published: Jan 1 1979
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Conchita Herdman Marianella's book develops the words Dueña and Doncella in their Cervantine context. The book offers the two sides of this character type in pre-Cervantine usage, from the tendency of the dueña or doncella to appear as a lady-in-waiting, damsel in distress, or other high-level intermediary and to behave in patterns commensurate with that socio-cultural status, to the stereotyped, irate, scheming, gossiping chaperone. While Cervantes often uses this second type in other prose works, the relationship between the two semantic fields becomes much more complex in the Quijote, so explicitly constructed as a satire of the earlier style. It is this tangle of character type and history that Marianella unwinds. This analysis newly illuminates the episode of Doña Rodríguez, one of the pinnacles of the creative craft of the Quijote.

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