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Ml 48106 18 BEDFORD ROW, LONDON WC1 R 4EJ, ENGLAND ROACH, PRISCILLA HUNTER THE IRONIC STRUCTURE AND STRUCTURES OF CAMILO JOSl CELA18 »NUEVAS ANOANZAS Y DESVENTURA8 DE LA2AR1LLO OE TORMES,” THE IOUI8XANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COL,, PH.D., $979 COPR, $979 ROACH, PRISCILLA HUNTER University Microfilms International 300 n. zeeb road, «nn arbor, mi 48io6 © 1979 PRISCILLA HUNTER ROACH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED THE IRONIC STRUCTURE AND STRUCTURES OF CAMILO JOSE CELA'S NUEVAS ANDANZAS Y DESVENTURAS DE LAZARILLO DE TORMES A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Foreign Languages by Priscilla Hunter Roach .S., Louisiana State University, 1965 & tel & .A., Louisiana State University, 1968 May, 1979 CONTENTS Page LIST OF FIGURES ....................................................... vi ABSTRACT................................................................... vii INTRODUCTION............................................................ 1 The Critics.......................................................... 4 Method .............................................................. 9 Chapter 1. THE IRONIC NATURE OF THE MODEL AND PROTOTYPES OF NUEVAS ANDANZAS Y DESVENTURAS DE LAZARILLO DE TORMES..................................................... 17 The Plot and Meaning of Lazarillo de Tonnes.............. 24 Structural-Functional Correspondences of the Lazarillo and Nuevas andanzas............................ 40 Identifying the Cross Pattern of Understructure. 51 Summary....................................................... 56 2. THE STRUCTURES OF ESTHETIC IRONY IN NUEVAS ANDANZAS. 64 The Juncture of Tratados V°-VI°: the Center of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Irony in Nuevas a n d a n z a s ................................................... 68 External Esthetic Irony..................................... 78 Ironization of the Classicism of the Lazarillo .... 80 Identity Confusion: Who is Lazaro? ................... 83 Identity Confusion: Who are the Acrobats? ......... 90 The Displacement of the Nurturing Female ........... 94 The Displacements of the Arcipreste-Esposa and the Alguacil Episodes................................ 99 ii Chapter Page The Displacement of the Point of Epiphany.............. 103 Summary ................................................... 115 3. INTERNAL ESTHETIC IRONY AND THE STRUCTURES OF ALLEGORY IN NUEVAS ANDANZAS................................... 122 The Basic Pair of Esthetic Understructures and Related Contradictions ................................... 123 Allegory in the Mythic Understructure........................132 The West: Salamanca ........................................134 La Cuadrilla: the Church................................. 134 Felipe: the University................................... 139 The East: France ............................................ 140 The Mock Romance .......................................... 143 The Ambiguous Nature of God and Man in the Mock Romance .......................................... 149 La Pareja: The Ironic Duad of the Anti-Creation............................................ 153 The Patterns of Initiation and Resurrection.................158 The Ironic Effect of the Ritual Understructure .... 163 The Shamanic Pattern ................................... 166 Irony in the Patterns of Initiation..................... 173 The Ironic Reversal of the Mythic Under­ structure................................................. 179 An Overview of Lazaro’s Shamanic Identity................... 181 Summary.......................................................... 184 4. THE IRONIC STRUCTURING OF PROTAGONIST AND POINT OF VIEW IN NUEVAS ANDANZAS ............................ 191 The Role of the Reader and the Theme of Identity in Nuevas andanzas.................................196 iii Chapter Page The Esthetic and Allegorical Identity of Lazaro Lopez .............................................. 206 The Picaros and Bacchus..................................... 209 The Picaros and Hecate ..................................... 218 The Picaros and the Gods of Wit and Wisdom, Pallas Athena and Hermes .............................. 228 The Ambiguous Narrator ..................................... 238 Summary.......................................................... 248 5. THE AMBIGUOUS PRESENTATION OF CHARACTER IN NUEVAS ANDANZAS................................................. 255 The Ironic Treatment of Characters ....................... 259 Ironic Monads................................................. 259 Static Characterization........................................ 263 Mirroring......................................................263 Shadowing......................................................268 Dynamic Characterization: Echoing ....................... 271 The Tisico/Loco Complex......................................273 The Tisicos................................................. 274 Julio, el Tisico .......................................... 280 The Locos................................................... 284 El Medico, Don Julio ......................................292 The Pattern of Ironic Integration and Antithesis in the Four Father-Archetypes .................300 The Ironic Serpent Structure ............................ 310 The Lawman and the Landowner ............................ 310 The Picaro and the Acrobat ...............................310 The Picaro and the Landowner, the Acrobat and the Lawman ................................. 314 iv Chapter Page The Acrobat and the Landowner, the Picaro and the Lawman................................... 315 Summary.......................................................... 317 6. CONCLUSIONS........................................................323 The Mythic Model . .......................................... 325 Plot: Ironic Deviations from the Model ..................... 328 The Double Articulation of Plot and Resultant Ironic Allegory................................... 332 The Ambiguous Presentation of Character and Point of View ............................................ 340 Summary.......................................................... 351 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ................................................ 355 VITA ' . 369 v FIGURES Figure Page 1. The Narrative Understructure of the Lazarillo de Tonnes ............................................ 27 2. Structural Correspondences of the Lazaro Myth in the Lazarillo and'Nuevas andanzas.........................