The Book of Good Love - Couverture rigide

Ruiz, Juan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0873950488 ISBN 13 : 9780873950480

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1970

Synopsis

A masterpiece in the tradition of the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales, Juan Ruiz's fourteenth-century Spanish narrative poem combines the comic and the serious, the bawdy and the practical, the satiric and the tender, the devout and the blasphemous. In a first prose translation, Professors Mignani and Di Cesare succeed in conveying the vitality and sly humor of the original.

The poem consists of a loosely unified series of fourteen amorous adventures of the Archpriest of Hita, interlaced with debates, fabliaux, fables, and exempla. Ruiz suggests that while man ought to seek buen amor (true love, or love of God), he is prone to loco amor, or worldly love. The Book proposes to show human folly so that men may be forewarned of the bad and choose the good.

The episodes related in the stanzas and in songs in various lyrical styles parody such conventions as courtly love, epic battle, or church ritual. Ruiz was clearly fascinated by the concrete, as well as the allegorical, for his episodes have dates and actual settings, and popular speech is incorporated into his verses.

In their introduction, the translators survey the major scholarly studies of the poem and offer their own critical reading of it. Their annotated bibliography and notes to the translation will be useful to students as well as scholars.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rigo Mignani is associate professor of romance languages at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1970
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0873950488
• ISBN 13: 9780873950480
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 372
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible