The catabasis in El Sueño de Úrsula by María Negroni
El sueño de Úrsula (1998) is a polyphonic work that re-elaborates Saint Ursula’s medieval legend. This character undertakes a fabulous journey to Rome, accompanied by other virgins, and is martyrized on her return, in Cologne. Ursula sets off on a pilgrimage in order to postpone a forced marriage. H...
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Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Humandiades. Instituto de Letras
2024
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| Sumario: | El sueño de Úrsula (1998) is a polyphonic work that re-elaborates Saint Ursula’s medieval legend. This character undertakes a fabulous journey to Rome, accompanied by other virgins, and is martyrized on her return, in Cologne. Ursula sets off on a pilgrimage in order to postpone a forced marriage. However, this journey acquires a particular meaning as it resembles a descent in other words, a catabasis. The objective of this paper is to examine how the catabasis structures Ursula’s journey, in a metaphorical sense, and how it allows her to explore erotism and death. For this analysis, theoretical contributions of Pilar Gónzález Serrano (1999), Jorge Linares Sánchez (2017), Gaston Bachelard (2005; 2014) and Georges Bataille (2019) are considered. They are the starting points for figuring out how this María Negroni’s work fits into the catabasis tradition. |
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