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«Axí com...» Le comparazioni nella lirica di Jordi de Sant Jordi
Oriana Scarpatisubject
lcsh:Language and LiteratureUNESCO::CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRASLingüísticaFilologíastypology and semantic functions of comparisonsJordi de Sant Jordimedieval Catalan literaturelcsh:Philology. Linguisticslcsh:P1-1091Comparazionilirica catalana«abbreviated priamel»:CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRAS [UNESCO]lcsh:Pmedieval Catalan literature; Jordi de Sant Jordi; typology and semantic functions of comparisons; «abbreviated priamel»description
Jordi de Sant Jordi uses more than thirty comparisons in his lyric poetry. These may be classified on the basis of their typology and semantic functions: true comparisons (where two elements are compared by means of a connector, the first being defined as ‘real’ and corresponding to the situation of the lyric persona, the second, figurative, presenting in metaphorical terms the same characteristics as the first element); comparisons between the ‘real’ situation and that of an unspecified human being, to which reference is made by means of the demonstrative ‘the one’ («axí com cell...»); hyperbolic comparisons, where the ‘real’ element is given hyperbolically as having to the same or to a greater extent a quality for which the second element is the example par excellence (‘stronger than Hercules’). Finally, we have identified a particular figure —which we have called an ‘abbreviated priamel’— whereby two situations are given between which the lyric persona must choose, stating that it prefers one and not the other.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-01-01 |