Chapter published in:
La «cavalleria umanistica» italiana / The Italian “Humanistic Chivalry”: Enyego (Inico) d’Àvalos e ‘Curial e Guelfa’ / Enyego (Inico) d’Àvalos and ‘Curial e Guelfa’Edited by Antoni Ferrando and Anna Maria Babbi
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 29] 2021
► pp. 127–138
Bellesa, valor, and honor
Direct speech strategies in Curial and Guelfa
Oriana Scarpati | Università di Napoli Federico II
This paper focuses on the instances of direct
speech in the anonymous chivalric romance Curial and
Guelfa. More specifically, it analyzes, on the one
hand, the encomia of the young hero Curial pronounced by the
characters in their speeches, and, on the other hand, the formal and
structural characteristics of two types of direct speech: speech
dealing with love themes, and speech addressed by a challenger to
his rival in the context of duels. Furthermore, the study examines
the occurrences of the term honor in direct
speeches as an expression of the author’s concept of chivalry.
Keywords: medieval poetry, medieval rhetoric, Catalan literature, Chivalric literature, Narrative and discourse
Published online: 18 November 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.29.07sca
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.29.07sca
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