Library of Rassegna iberistica

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Chapter | Los conceptos de gusto y disgusto en Gracián con el ejemplo del cuerpo grotesco en El Criticón

Los conceptos de gusto y disgusto en Gracián con el ejemplo del cuerpo grotesco en El Criticón

Abstract

The concepts of taste (gusto) and disgust are two sides of the same coin. Whereas Gracián is consistent in his references to the former, its counterpart, disgust, has to be inferred from his silence on the concept. In this article, I discuss disgust by analyzing the relationship between the body and literary taste in Gracián’s Criticón. I maintain that the Jesuit introduced a newly dynamic dimension on then-accepted ideas of taste. Further, I reject the improper identification of Gracián’s innovations as an expression of ‘bad taste’ and propose instead the notion of disgust in as much as it refers to an aesthetic category that rejects the Rules of Decorum and follows the Varietas to design a grotesque body.  


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Submitted: Dec. 23, 2015 | Accepted: Nov. 21, 2016 | Language: it

Keywords Grotesque body • Decorum • Disgust • Variety • Fine taste

Copyright © 2017 Eduardo Muratta Bunsen. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-163-8/RiB-5-67


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