Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the burlesque style in Martin del Barco Centenera’s epic poem Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata. In the first place, the notion of «discoursive traditions» is treated to give a wide framing to the text. Then, the concept of heteroglossia is analyzed and commented its use in the poem, regarding the use of anecdotes and three burlesque resources: irony, satire and grotesque. All these features enjoy the poem´s didactic style and intention of the work, becoming a text wich is new somehow to this tradition.

Abstract

Burlesque poetry was a resource that playwrights like Calderon used to renew worn mechanisms of comedies. In this sense, No hay burlas con el amor is a paradigmatic work, since Calderon, apart from creating humor by inverting dramatic formulas, used some resources of burlesque poetry, which, in terms of performance, showed that the work was an artifice and that it provoked laughter within the audience. The aim of this article is, precisely, to show how this process worked through the dialogue that is established between the dramatic text and the spectacular text of the work.