Between ‘Witz’ and Carnival: The Episode of Rachel and Vidas from “Cantar de Mio Cid”

Authors

  • Salvatore Luongo University of Naples “L’Orientale”

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i3.6586

Keywords:

Cantar de mio Cid, Rachel and Vidas, comic functions, Witz, Carnival

Abstract

Exiled by his king, without any means, at the beginning of Cantar the Cid is obliged to resort to a deception to obtain the money necessary for the maintenance of his company: he fills two chests with sand and, in exchange for a loan of six hundred marks, he gives them as a pledge to Rachel and Vidas, two moneylenders of Burgos, making them believe that they contain gold and precious. The contribution aims to re-examine the function of comic that the fraud produces, retracing the episode in the light of two interpretative models: the Orlandian one of the formation of compromise between repression of surface and underlying serious content, and the Bakhtinian one of the carnival upside-down world.     

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Author Biography

Salvatore Luongo, University of Naples “L’Orientale”

Salvatore Luongo teaches Philology and Romance Linguistics at the University of Naples "L’Orientale". He has dealt with Italian texts from the southern area (in this context he has published the critical edition of the Sicilian translation of a confession manual attributed to Bernardino da Siena), Castilian epic (studies on the Leyenda de los sei infantes de Lara and on Cantar de mio Cid) and ancient French (in particular of the Guillaume d’Orange cycle, with the publication of the critical edition of the C and D version of Charroi de Nîmes), and of short story (in this area has published a monograph dedicated to Juan Manuel’s Conde Lucanor). He is currently dedicated to the study of Sendebar and Gonzalo di Berceo’s Milagros de Nuestra Señora and collaborates on an international project for the study and critical edition of the Chanson d’Aspremont.

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Published

2019-12-29

How to Cite

Luongo, S. (2019). Between ‘Witz’ and Carnival: The Episode of Rachel and Vidas from “Cantar de Mio Cid”. SigMa - Rivista Di Letterature Comparate, Teatro E Arti Dello Spettacolo, (3), 485–513. https://doi.org/10.6093/sigma.v0i3.6586

Issue

No. 3 (2019): The forms and the days. Representations of everyday life in literature, audiovisual, visual and performing arts

Section

Monographic section II

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