A companion to the Libro de buen amor
By: edited by Louise M. Haywood and Louise O. Vasvári
Contributors: Haywood, Louise M; Vasvári, Louise O. 1943-; Ruiz, Juan, fl. 1343.
Series: Colección Támesis -- 209
Publisher: Tamesis
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Woodbridge, UK; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Ruiz, Juan, -- fl. 1343
Description: "Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor is one of the major literary accomplishments of the Iberian Middle Ages, and has generated an extensive secondary bibliography. The current volume contains a series of essays that offer new scholarly insights into the Libro, in tribute to the late G. B. Gybbon-Monypenny and his 'Libro de buen amor' Studies, and contextualize the Libro for a fresh generation of readers. The articles offer surveys and new insights on the context and socio-political milieu of Juan Ruiz (Louise M. Haywood), the Libro's metrics (Martin J. Duffell), its use of traditional wisdom (Barry Taylor), and its transmission (Jeremy Lawrence), the central episodes of Don Amor and Dona Endrina (Alan Deyermond, Dorothy S.

Severin), and the application to the Libro of modern critical approaches, drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin, folklore studies, chaos theory, and reader-reception theory (Elizabeth Drayson, Laurence de Looze, Louise O. Vasvari)."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-215) and indexes
Table of contents: title: Reading the Libro de buen amor thirty years on / Louise M. Haywood and Louise O. Vasvári; title: Juan Ruiz and the Libro de buen amor / Louise M. Haywood; title: Libro de buen amor / Jeremy Lawrance; title: Metre and rhythm in the Libro de buen amor / Martin J. Duffell; title: Exempla and proverbs in the Libro de buen amor / Barry Taylor; title: 'Was it a vision or a waking dream?' / Alan Deyermond; title: The relationship between the Libro de buen amor and Celestina / Dorothy S. Severin; title: Text, author, reader, reception / Laurence De Looze; title: Chaotics, complexity, and the Libro de buen amor / Elizabeth Drayson; title: The novelness of the Libro de buen amor / Louise O. Vasvári