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Olivante de Laura y la reflexión sobre el vestido

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    Pastrana Santamarta, Tomasa
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    Pastrana Santamarta, Tomasa

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    Format:
    Journal article
    Language:
    Spanish; Castilian
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    text (article)
    Published:
    2019
    In:
    Lectura y signo: revista de literatura ISSN 1885-8597 Nº. 14, 2019, pags. 91-99
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    Antonio de Torquemada displays in Olivante de Laura the typical references to clothing and textiles used in other chivalric books. However, he innovates as he questions the capacity for dress to convey hierarchy. The medieval notion of dressing «according to one´s status» becomes now the central topic for debate about which the main characters discuss. Following the Renaissance trend, the hero disguiseshimself as a shepherd in order to approach his loved one. His behavior is a reflection of the times, when people also wear clothes not appropriate to their status. It is from here that Torquemada subtly shows the way society is changing and claims for a new and more effective method to determine and measure hierarchy. Clothing will no longer be valid, he then proposes linage.


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