The Battle of Flesh and Lent in the “Libro del Arcipreste”: Gastro-genital rites of reversal

Vasvári, Louise O.

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“…Again the women is presented as both naive and worldly, sexually repressed and salacious, and again in need of the male instrument to «fulfill» her by resolving her indicision, metaphorically to «fill her» with phallic foods. This montage exemplifies what Vasvari (1991:3) has called the «gastro-genital equivalences» of Spanish carnival, a motif we will return to.…”

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“…Irresoluble in thought, this conflict between fleshly desire and denial, between dependence and «masculine protest» in Adlerian terms, finds resolution through salacious laughter, specifically in sexual travesty, wherein inner contradictions conflate pleasurably in bizarre corporeal associations. In this topsy-turvy world, food and sexual hunger are equated in the gastro-genital symbolism beloved of the Andalusian poet (Vasvari, 1991); the male genitals transmute into fishes, eggs and sausage, a cotton swab, a barber's brush, or the stiff gearshift of a car. A bicycle ride becomes erotic foreplay, a rabbit becomes a vagina sick with sexual longing; milk for morning coff ee inspires sexual fantasies.…”

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Sex and Symbol in Andalusian Comic Poetry

Gilmore

2020

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Este artículo presenta unas coplas de chirigota compuestas por desempeño público durante el carnaval en una villa agraria de la provincia de Sevilla. Las coplas están compuestas entre los años 40 y 90. Representando un género folklórico burlesco social específicamente andaluz, las coplas son una prerrogativa solamente masculina, escritas por los «maestros de murga» e interpretadas por cantores masculinos («murguistas»). Basadas en imágenes eróticas, metáforas genitales y alegorías obscenas, las letras comunican una ideología masculina sobre la sexualidad, las relaciones entre el hombre y la mujer y la domesticidad. Concluye el artículo con una breve interpretación de las letras de chirigota, basándose el análisis en el concepto de «realismo grotesco» propuesto por el crítico ruso Bakhtin.

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2020

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“…5. Con respecto al libro del Arcipreste, véase también el estudio lexicográfico de Vicente Reynal (1988) y las posteriores investigaciones de Vasvári (1990Vasvári ( , 1991Vasvári ( , 1992Vasvári ( , 1995Vasvári ( , 1997. 6.…”

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El viaje como metáfora sexual: de la lírica tradicional a la poesía áurea

Piquero

2022

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Entre los estudios dedicados a la literatura erótica de los Siglos de Oro, uno de los campos de investigación tradicionalmente más fructíferos ha sido el del reconocimiento, la decodificación y la sistematización del vocabulario sexual. Partiendo del análisis, comparación y comentario de más de quinientos poemas, este artículo trata de demostrar cómo la parcela de conocimiento referida a los viajes y los desplazamientos en el espacio, que ha recibido poca atención crítica hasta la fecha, posee unas indudables connotaciones sexuales en la tradición literaria hispánica: desde la lírica popular y las cantigas gallego-portuguesas hasta la poesía erótica áurea, sin dejar de lado la vena petrarquista y el romancero.

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The Sly Text: Contradiction and Parody in the Libro de buen amor

Daas¹

2005

Romance Studies

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This article highlights Juan Ruiz's use of contradiction and parody to subvert authoritative social and textual constructs of the fourteenth century. A specific examination of the various contradictory elements of the epic battle between Flesh/Lent (Carnal/Cuaresma) demonstrates how Juan Ruiz transgresses the boundaries of hegemonic sensibilities to maintain a more complex expression of the populist influences on his text. Using Antonio Gramsci's theory of the national-popular, the perceived clash of popular and formal spirituality is rendered intelligible, permitting the reader to understand that ideology is both a product of the ruling classes and influenced by a multivocal society.The Libro de buen amor (LBA) demonstrates a mastery of convention and, at the same time, challenges authority. On the surface, it is both a colourful and celebratory romp through the academic and religious milieux of the fourteenth century and a parody of well-established literary traditions. On a second level, the LBA transmits a profound belief system through its erudite discourse on the most important theological debates of the day: the morality of intention, the question of individual discernment, confessional jurisdiction, and the elements of penance. The author, known as Juan Ruiz, approaches each of these issues with a combination of reverence and derision.

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The Battle of Flesh and Lent in the “Libro del Arcipreste”: Gastro-genital rites of reversal

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Sex and Symbol in Andalusian Comic Poetry

Sex and Symbol in Andalusian Comic Poetry

El viaje como metáfora sexual: de la lírica tradicional a la poesía áurea

The Sly Text: Contradiction and Parody in the Libro de buen amor

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