La disonancia y otras <i>desviaciones</i> del discurso en la poética literaria, musical y gestual del culto a la Razón. (De la norma de Zarlino a la gestualidad de la Zarabanda)

Lucía Díaz Marroquín

doi:10.3989/revliteratura.2009.v71.i141.77

Dissonance and other discourse deviations in the literary, musical and gestural poetics of the cult of Reason

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Lucía Díaz Marroquín The Warburg Institute

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https://doi.org/10.3989/revliteratura.2009.v71.i141.77

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Dissonance, consonance, decorum, affects, passions, erotism, Aristotle, Gioseffo Zarlino, Torquato Tasso, López Pinciano, Bances Candamo, Athanasius Kircher, Claudio Monteverdi, Pietro Cerone, Andrés Lorente, Pablo Nasarre, Marie Catherine d’Aulnoy, sarabande

Abstract

The European early-modern poetic and rhetorical cosmology supports itself on the idea of a macrocosmic coherence —the harmony of the spheres—, reflected in the microcosmic-human literary, musical or gestural poetics. However, the phenomenon of dissonance, both as metaphor and as fact, challenges the humanist and pre-rationalist poetic decorum.

Between 1550 and 1700, the categories of the ethical affects and the indecorous passions struggle to find some balance, which they ultimately achieve under the cult of Reason. Meanwhile, literary and musical authors, as well as performers of every kind, from textual or musical drama to dance, explore the limits of the passionate emotions by means of disrupting the conventional decorum based on the idea of consonance. The use of literary, musical and gestural dissonance is one of their preferred poetic and rhetorical tools.

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2009-06-30

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Díaz Marroquín, L. (2009). Dissonance and other discourse deviations in the literary, musical and gestural poetics of the cult of Reason. Revista De Literatura, 71(141), 57–84. https://doi.org/10.3989/revliteratura.2009.v71.i141.77

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Vol. 71 No. 141 (2009)

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