La lectura de la joya en el cuerpo de la mujer: La ajorca de oro de Bécquer y de Ilangô Adigal María Victoria Galloso Camacho

Abstract

This article presents one of the approaches of multimodal discourse analysis (O’Halloran, 2014), on the basis of the presence of jewelry adorning the female body in two literary works sharing the same title, although belonging to two very different historical contexts. The first work was written by the Jain Prince Ilango Adigal towards the second century AD, and it is inspired by the splendid surroundings of Southern India. The second work was written by the Spanish poet Gustavo Adolfo Becquer in 1861, and it tells the love story of two young people in the city of Toledo. The function of the jewels and their visual design in Las ajorcas de oro are studied as a comparative semiotic analysis of ornamental samples.