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This article examines the function of the motif of tears in Rosalía de Castro’s La hija del mar (Daughter of the Sea). In order to do this, an evolution is traced from the suppositions of the comédie larmoyante to the significance of weeping in the serialized novel. This opposition provokes questions regarding the nature of representation, models of imagination and sensibility proper to modern literature, and concepts of spatiality which prefigure the Foucauldian “thought from the outside”. Through its parodic and self-reflexive elements, La hija del mar describes a poetics of weeping fundamentally removed from the enlightenment rationalization of sentiment. 

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Sentimental fiction, Tears, Comédie larmoyante, Rosalía de Castro, La hija del mar

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María Do Cebreiro Rábade Villar, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Avda. Castelao s/n

15782 Santiago