Mateo Rosas de Oquendo. A journey and a romance: the lyrical self before the new world

Abstract

This article analyzes a fragment of a romance attributed to Mateo Rosas de Oquendo dating from the 16th century. The analysis focuses on the travel story conceived as an elementary action, which crosses the vast majority of the texts produced or written from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, whose reference is the displacement between Spain and Spanish America. Textual semantics delimits the fragment of the similar assessments to which it could be submitted, for this the semiosis of the narrative is used, without establishing the relationship between what can be factual and what can be fiction. In the pilgrimage of the lyrical self, actions such as dimensioning spaces and facing personal challenges to the unknown are brought together. In a world described as a continent of exaggerations, Rosas de Oquendo, embarks in a journey of geographical displacement to discover both himself and new lands.