Open AccessAmplificatio y Dilatatio en Berceo
Author(s) -
Carlos Moreno Hernández
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
revista de filología española
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.174
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1988-8538
pISSN - 0210-9174
DOI - 10.3989/rfe.2009.v89.i1.65
Subject(s) - rhetorical question , exaggeration , humanities , source text , history , literature , art , philosophy , linguistics , psychology , psychoanalysis
Based on a text by Gonzalo de Berceo (Milagros de Nuestra Señora, III: El clérigo y la flor ), the article argues about the predominant, or quantitative, rhetorical use of amplificatio as dilatatio materiae during the Middle Ages. Some verses from the tale are confronted with the Latin source to show that the author does not forget the proper, or classical, or qualitative, sense of amplificatio as increment or exaggeration, and even that this aspect becomes essential to understand the treatment he has made of the source in this and other texts of the work