"La Historia de Grisel y Mirabella", de la estructura al significado

Abstract

This article intends to show the tripartite structure of Grisel y Mirabella by Juan de Flores, taking as starting points Flores's commentaries in the explicit of his work, as well as a series of discourse markers that support them, as it is shown in the tradition of the text on print. The case of Grisel and Mirabella, the trial of Torrellas and Brazaida, and the love and death of the misogynist poet are analysed in terms of their semantic relations, symmetries, contrasts, and similarities and differences regarding genre theory. Special attention is paid to the creation of a specific literary model for Torrellas's sudden infatuation, which could be understood as the misogynist/philogynist duality common to his Coplas and Razonamiento. In any case, the ambiguity of Flores's work with reference to the woman question can only be tackled from the perspective of both the narrator and the addressee herself.