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Swallowing Mosquitoes, Wine, and Supplement with Quevedo

Swallowing Mosquitoes, Wine, and Supplement with Quevedo

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Swallowing Mosquitoes, Wine, and Supplement with Quevedo

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Swallowing Mosquitoes, Wine, and Supplement with Quevedo

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Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

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Rocky Mountain review of language and literature, 2006-01, Vol.60 (1), p.11-23

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English

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Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

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In Quevedo's sonnet #531 the mosquito functions as a supplement, disrupting the perfection of the wine and the formal order of the poem, transgressing the strict thematic divisions in the work. Through metaphor, vocabulary, and neologism, the mosquito is portrayed as one link in a potentially infinite chain of supplementation. But the term "mosquit...

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Swallowing Mosquitoes, Wine, and Supplement with Quevedo

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TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_2307_4143876

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_2307_4143876

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0361-1299

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10.2307/4143876

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