Abstract

Abstract:

This essay examines character development toward an extreme marginalization through the lens of eccentricity in the form of the “Licenciado Vidriera” as compared to the treatment of marginalized cultural phenomena of the B7st-century. The Cervantine character, Tomás Rodaja, represents a literary figure who is used to point out societal absurdities by dint of his madman worldview. The examination of this character in parallel with B7st-century phenomena unearths the theatricality of cultural norms, thereby signaling a fluidity in ideological understandings of society and culture. Key to this understanding is the theoretical underpinnings of the study, which take the form of Slavoj EiFek’s observations on the unknown knowns of ideology.

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