El Refran como estrategia discursiva en ""Guzman de Alfarache""
Description
This dissertation intends to demonstrate that Mateo Aleman uses the proverb in order to elaborate his prose in Guzman de Alfarache (1599, 1604). To exemplify this, the dissertation begins in chapter one to trace the origins and define the proverb. In chapter two, the author gives a detailed study of the two parts of the novel. The analysis proves that Guzman de Alfarache contains 244 proverbs, some of them repeated more than twice, These proverbs convey a series of themes clearly elaborated in the text. These themes are: (1) need of survival, (2) wrong administration of goods, (3) misogyny, (4) determinism, (5) lack of solidarity and (6) lack of justice The proverb is also used to introduce other parts of the discourse. They combine with other levels of popular language and result in a sort of formulaic language. This is the subject of chapter three. In chapter four the author studies the morphology of the proverbs. The forms that the proverbs take provide another way of interpreting the text. Five forms were found which function accordingly to the context: complete proverbs, variant proverbs, fragments of proverbs, allusions to proverbs and motifs. Chapter five deals with the paremiological style of Mateo Aleman. Aleman uses the same features of the proverb in his prose: rhyme, alliteration, antithesis, paradox, rhetorical questions, exclamations, allusions to proverbial literature. The dissertation also has proverbs and proverbial phrases indexes