Status of the Reading Subject in the Libro De Buen Amor

Klappentext The undisputed masterpiece of fourteenth-century Spain by Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, affords a particularly privileged locus for Marina Scordilis Brownlee's implementation of reader-response theory. As opposed to many medieval authors, Ruiz explicitly refuses to prescribe interpretation for his readership (as evidenced by his programmatic rewriting of Augustine's Confessions) a fact that has led to widely divergent critical readings of his fictional biography. Zusammenfassung The undisputed masterpiece of fourteenth-century Spain by Juan Ruiz! Archpriest of Hita! affords a particularly privileged locus for the implementation of reader-response theory. As opposed to many medieval authors! Ruiz explicitly refuses to prescribe interpretation for his readership! a fact that has led to widely divergent critical readings of his fictional biography.

Product details

• Authors: Marina Scordilis Brownlee, Shannon Brownlee
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780807892282
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-9228-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures; North Carolina Studies in the; North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies