Description: Reading the Exemplum Right : Fixing the Meaning of El Conde Lucanor, Paperback by Burgoyne, Jonathan, ISBN 0807892939, ISBN-13 9780807892930, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Reading the Exemplum Right situates Juan Manuel at the apex of the European literary tradition of the exemplum and demonstrates how he puts the coercive power and authority of the illustrative tale on display for his audience. Following the medieval modes of reading and writing that structure Juan Manuel's text, Jonathan Burgoyne uncovers a rhetorical lesson woven into the entire five-part Conde Lucanor that lays bare the inherent ambivalence of the exemplum as a narrative sign. Burgoyne then traces the earliest response to Juan Manuel's work as it can be uncovered in the layout, variance, interlineations, and marginalia found in the various late medieval and early modern manuscript witnesses of El Conde Lucanor. The study concludes by testing the hypothesis that a work's earliest audience can establish a tradition of reading that effectively prevents alternative interpretations and fixes an orthodox meaning of the text for future generations.
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Book Title: Reading the Exemplum Right : Fixing the Meaning of El Conde Lucanor
Number of Pages: 242 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: Medieval, European / Spanish & Portuguese
Publication Year: 2007
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism
Item Weight: 15 oz
Author: Jonathan Burgoyne
Item Length: 9 in
Book Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
