La enunciación paradójica y las estrategias del discurso burlesco

Abstract

This article emphasizes the specific type of enunciation that is characteristic of several burlesque poems. In these poems, most verses consist in a speech made by a character mocked by the poet. Such speech is usually supposed to be serious (pleading for someone or something, censuring an injustice, exhorting to behave in a definite way...). Therefore, the relationship between what is said and the character who is talking appears clearly paradoxical. This article, after a preliminary study of the description of burlesque poetry made by González de Salas in Quevedo’s Parnaso español, also tries to establish the exact scope of his insistence on interlocution and the simultaneous presence of burlas and veras, an insistence that should be considered partly strategic.

Keywords

• enunciation
• González de Salas Jusepe Antonio
• burlesque poetry
• poetics
• Quevedo Francisco de