Trembling Curiosity

Sex and Desire in El curioso impertinente and Carne trémula

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ID20249347
AutoresBruce R Burningham (Illinois State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume14
Fascículo2
Páginas33
Data de publicação2025-02-14
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHumanities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/h14020033
OpenAlexW4407565052
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas44

There is a longstanding connection between “curiosity”, “desire”, and “sexuality”. This connection can be found in texts as diverse as works of scripture like the Hebrew Bible and the Quran as well as in contemporary works of critical theory. Miguel de Cervantes explored such a connection more than four centuries ago in El curioso impertinente, an exemplary novella embedded in the 1605 part one of Don Quixote. Through a comparative reading of Cervantes’s El curioso impertinent, Pedro Almodóvar’s 1997 film Carne trémula (itself a free adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s 1986 novel Live Flesh), and Luis Buñuel’s 1955 film Ensayo de un crimen, this essay analyzes the intersection of curiosity and desire—inflected through the lenses of both Girardian and Lacanian theory—in order to explore the fundamental role not just of curiosity in early modern Spain, but also in the representation of modern (and postmodern) sexuality

Aesthetics · Art · Curiosity · Human sexuality · Literature · Novella · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy

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