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Música asnal: fábula e interpretación bruta
Suárez Roldán, Juan Camilo
2023
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Abstract
The analysis of narrative elaborations like fables provides elements for the valuation of the way we have represented animals, intelligence and, also, the way we propose behavioral models through didactic literary genres. However, the change in paradigm in the way we conceive the human-animal relationship offers an interpretative horizon that this article seeks to explore through the reading of a series of fables with the same protagonist and similar motifs. The protagonist owes, in great measure, its condition of archetypal beast to these stories: donkey has become a synonym of brute or lacking civility. Thus, the interest for this figure in three fables from different temporary and social coordinates, that employ this character – the donkey – and its encounter with a musical instrument to formulate a deontic precept: the value of knowledge, education and effort as opposed to casual accomplishment or one due to chance. “The Ass and the Lyre” (Phaedrus), “The flutist Donkey” (T. de Iriarte), and “The Donkey and the Flute” (A. Monterroso) are three texts with similar structures and form that will allow an exploration of genre, form, compositional elements and meaning to project sense onto aspects that compromise the symbolic value of animal representation and allow for ethical and ontological considerations in the evolution of this tale, in the face of the actual conception of the identity of its nature, in its sphere and in some correlative problems.
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Juan Camilo Suárez Roldán, "Música asnal: fábula e interpretación bruta" in: "Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics (2023) XXV/3", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2023, pp. 27-42
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