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A Companion to the 'Libro de Buen Amor'
Edited by Louise M. Haywood
Edited by Louise O. Vasvári


Este nuevo volumen ofrece ensayos de especialistas anglófonos sobre el Libro de Buen Amor, obra monumental del siglo XIV. El volumen responde a la necesidad de un enfoque actualizado que examina el estado de las cuestiones principales (como son la de la autoría y su contexto, la métrica, las tradiciones manuscrita e impresa, el uso de exempla y proverbios, y las aproximaciones teóricas al Libro) y sus implicaciones para una lectura del Libro. Además aporta dos estudios de uno de los episodios principales (el encuentro del arcipreste con Don Amor hasta la muerte de Dońa Endrina). Se explora también la estructura de la obra juanruizana como un texto pre-novelístico en el sentido bajtiniano y desde la teoría del caos. Contribuyen: Laurence de Looze, Alan Deyermond, Martín Duffell, Elizabeth Drayson, Jeremy Lawrance, Dorothy S. Severin, Barry Taylor, y los editores.

This volume of essays on the fourteenth-century Libro de Buen Amor by Anglophone Hispanists comprises survey articles (author and milieu, print and manuscript traditions, metrics, exempla and proverbs, modern theoretical treatments of the Libro), fresh readings of a key passage (the encounter between Don Amor and the Archpriest, and don Melón and dońa Endrina), and appraisals of the Libro's meanings and structure as pre-novelistic discourse, and through chaos theory. Contributors are Alan Deyermond, Elizabeth Drayson, Martin Duffell, Jeremy Lawrance, Laurence de Looze, Dorothy S. Severin, Barry Taylor, and the editors.

 

DETAILS

248 pages
Size: 23.4 x 15.6 cm
10 digit ISBN: 1855660946
13 digit ISBN: 9781855660946
Binding: Hardback
First published: 30/Nov/2004
Price: 95.00 USD / 50.00 GBP
Imprint: Tamesis Books
Series: Monografías A

BIC class: CSBB

STATUS: Available
Details updated on 12/08/2008

Contents
   Introduction: Reading the Libro de Buen Amor Thirty Years On [with Louise O. Vasvári]
Louise M Haywood and Louise O Vasvári
1   Juan Ruiz and the Libro de Buen Amor: Contexts and Milieu
Louise M Haywood
2   Libro de Buen Amor: From Script to Print
Jeremy Lawrence
3   Metre and Rhythm in the Libro de Buen Amor
Martin Duffell
4   Exempla and Proverbs in the Libro de Buen Amor
Barry Taylor
5   `Was it a Vision or a Waking Dream?': The Anomalous Don Amor and Dońa Endrina Episodes Reconsidered
Alan Deyermond
6   The Relationship between the Libro de Buen Amor and Celestina: Does Trotaconventos Perform a Philocaptio Spell on Dońa Endrino
Dorothy Sherman Severin
7   Text, Author, Reader, Reception: The Reflections of Theory and the Libro de Buen Amor
Laurence De Looze
8   Chaotics, Complexity, and the Libro de Buen Amor
Elizabeth Drayson
9   The Novelness of the Libro de Buen Amor
Louise O Vasvári

Reviews
Will become a standard work of reference for LBA scholars for many years to come. MEDIUM AEVUM
Will become required reading for those making a study of this key text. BRITISH BULLETIN of PUBLICATIONS on LATIN AMERICA
Provides any new, or veteran, student of the Libro with a useful and detailed view of the major challenges it presents to its readers. SPECULUM
Rich, engaging, and sophisticated...the criticism is state of the art. The individual essays are solid, and the sum of the parts has encyclopedic authority. Highly recommended. CHOICE
An essential tool for all who wish to experience a fresh reading of an outstanding medieval author. MLR



 

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