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 (as evidenced by his programatic rewriting of Augustine's Confessions) a fact that has led to widely divergent critical readings of his fictional biography.
| ISBN: | 9780807892282 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 1985 |
| Author: | Marina Scordilis Brownlee |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 139 pages |
| Series: | North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Literary companions, book reviews and guides Literary studies: general |