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    La laisse CLXXXVII: estructura y motivos cómicos en la Chanson de Roland.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2019) Navas, Roger
    The structure of La Chanson de Roland has been deeply studied by many scholars; the debate surrounding “Baligant” is one of the recurrent topics. In this article, we focus on the laisse CLXXXVII, which is placed at the beginning of the episode, in order to reveal certain structural and semantic parallelisms outside of the framework of the authenticity discussion; we also describe the function of these parallelisms, especially the way in which they help the transition between the two halves of the Chanson; studying the purpose of these symbolic correspondences leads us to look into the existence of comical elements in the text. Accordingly, after a short introduction, the second section is dedicated to a formal analysis of the laisse, the third serves to contextualize it, reconstructing the temporal progression of the story, and, fnally, the fourth section studies this comical component and its elaboration on the laisse.