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Reading, Performing, and Imagining the Libro del Arcipreste
E. Michael Gerli
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Description for Reading, Performing, and Imagining the Libro del Arcipreste
Paperback. Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Reading, Performing, and Imagining the Libro del Arcipreste, examines how reading, writing, and interpretation reside at the core of the cultural history of the Castilian Libro del Arcipreste (often called the Libro de buen amor) from the moment of its creation in the first part of the fourteenth century. The study comprises three sections. In the first, the author situates the Libro within the tradition of Augustinian hermeneutics and exegetics, relating the work to the schools at Toledo and Salamanca. The second part develops hypotheses concerning the performative cues in the Libro, emphasizing the audible/visible aspect of medieval reading and ... Read more
Reading, Performing, and Imagining the Libro del Arcipreste, examines how reading, writing, and interpretation reside at the core of the cultural history of the Castilian Libro del Arcipreste (often called the Libro de buen amor) from the moment of its creation in the first part of the fourteenth century. The study comprises three sections. In the first, the author situates the Libro within the tradition of Augustinian hermeneutics and exegetics, relating the work to the schools at Toledo and Salamanca. The second part develops hypotheses concerning the performative cues in the Libro, emphasizing the audible/visible aspect of medieval reading and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469630618
SKU
V9781469630618
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About E. Michael Gerli
E. Michael Gerli is Commonwealth Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Virginia. North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
Reviews for Reading, Performing, and Imagining the Libro del Arcipreste
"Well-grounded in the secondary scholarship on the LBA, the novelty of this study is Gerli’s insightful teasing out of how medieval and fifteenth-century Spanish scholars and readers most likely read and performed the text, as well as how the work became one of several scandalous threads in a twentieth-century American murder case. Gerli’s study will be of value to scholars ... Read more