The Status of the Reading Subject in the Libro de Buen Amor
ISBN: 9781469642611
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Ruiz Juan ft. 1343. Libro de buen amor; Reader -- response criticism;

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.


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