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Study of equivocation in Francisco de Quevedo' poems

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Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas(1580-1645) is one of the most eye-catching personality of the XVII century. They consider him as the maximum representative of the Conceptismo, which is the current literary that has preference to ideas with the purpose to impress the intelligence. This technic, which is different compare to Gongoras Culterismo, is produced at the level of understanding. This is why they consider Quevedos writing easy and transparent compare to Gongoras. But this is a wrong image, because the great writer, uses and accumulates conceptismo resorts which is very dificult. Below the simple apparent there are hidden surprises.The language of Quevedo has a deepness in the meaning of the word, with the purpose to impress the intelligence. He tries to prevent to mention the referent with a usual signification, naming it with another symbol which has a relation with the signifiant or with the signifie itself. This is how the neologismo was created. The similarity of the signification is shown through paradox, paronomasias, calambures, retruecanos, dialogias or equivocos. The resemblance of the significations leads to metaphors not with the purpose to embellish like the Culteranismo, but to excite the theme. This is why in this work we will focus on the games of the words named as ambiguity, which is the use of the same word with diferent meanings at the level of the phrase as vocabulary, which stands out at the burlesque’s poems to deform the reality or the human in extreme ways. It recreates inthis resort the disloyal marriage(in concrete with the themes of cornudos), varied occupations such as pharmacist and doctors and the literates such as the invective Gongora or of himself.

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