Rhetoric of Possibility and Semantic Reinterpretation of Tradition in Two Short-Stories of Luisa Valenzuela’s Cuentos de Hades

Luisa Valenzuela’s collection of short stories Cuentos de Hades (1993) retrieves and reinterprets traditional folktales from what some experts call a feminist perspective. Using a Lausbergian approach, this work aims to reveal how, in these stories, elocutio emerges from rhetorical devices such as q...