Criticón (Jan 2017)
La poética deseada por Cervantes o el arte de la voz en el Quijote
Abstract
In the epilogue of Don Quixote, for the first time Cervantes discovers his desire for a new poetics, his own, to conclude the poetics of the chivalric romance novels. For this, he creates a set of resources that undermines a topical equation of his time (writing equals truth), which propitiated the conversion of the gullible reader into a critical reader and the advent of the modern novel. One of the resources, not the least important, was the recovery of the millenary art of voice which was fading away both in writing and in the transformation of vocalized reading into ocular or silent reading. The art of voice in Don Quixote is ciphered in a corpus of didascalias which when in control of the resonant reading’s actio —still prevailing in the first half of the 17th century— guides the listener’s reception. These didascalias encompass phonic aspects of the voice, volume, various dramatic tonalities, pronunciation techniques that make intelligible evil-speaking or the characters’ soliloquies or the way of reading that leads the Manchegan knight to madness. In the performed analyses, case by case, the actio of the voice recreates the writing semantics, which gains special importance by dealing with the three avatars of the protagonist (Quejana/don Quijote/Alonso Quijano).
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