La “violación” de Melibea: ¿fantasía medieval o altomoderna?
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2022
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La resistencia femenina a los avances sexuales masculinos es un motivo recurrente en el llamado "género celestinesco", en el que casi indefectiblemente sirve de preludio al coito. En este motivo se pone de relieve una erotización de la violencia que, ateniéndonos a una parte significante de la poesía erótica del pleno siglo XVI, se siente como un estimulante del deseo masculino. Sin embargo, dicho poder afrodisíaco, transparente en las composiciones quinientistas, no lo es tanto en la literatura medieval, por lo que se impone preguntarse cómo llega a "Celestina" a finales del siglo XV. En este trabajo expondremos el papel que el "Ars amatoria" de Ovidio y la novela caballeresca pudieron desempeñar en la introducción de este motivo.
Feminine resistance to masculine sexual approaches is a recurring motif in the so-called "celestinesque genre", in which it almost invariably serves as foreplay for intercourse. This motif evidences an erotisation of violence that, according to a significant portion of early-modern erotic poetry, acts as a stimulant of male desire. However, this aphrodisiac power, apparent in the poetic compositions of the 16th century, is not as evident in the literature of the Middle Ages. As a result, it becomes necessary to explain how this motif reachs "Celestina" as early as the end of the 15th century. In this paper, I will explore the role that Ovid’s "Ars amatoria" and chivalric literature could have played in the introduction of such a motif.
Feminine resistance to masculine sexual approaches is a recurring motif in the so-called "celestinesque genre", in which it almost invariably serves as foreplay for intercourse. This motif evidences an erotisation of violence that, according to a significant portion of early-modern erotic poetry, acts as a stimulant of male desire. However, this aphrodisiac power, apparent in the poetic compositions of the 16th century, is not as evident in the literature of the Middle Ages. As a result, it becomes necessary to explain how this motif reachs "Celestina" as early as the end of the 15th century. In this paper, I will explore the role that Ovid’s "Ars amatoria" and chivalric literature could have played in the introduction of such a motif.