Meaning and Reading in the Proverbs of El Conde Lucanor.
We are adept readers of the fifty some exiemplos of Don Juan Manuel's fourteenth-century El Conde Lucanor; these exempla and the prologue that precedes them constitute a classic of medieval Spanish literature. This article analyzes the proverb books in this work, Books II-IV, to argue that the lack...
| Publicado en: | Revista de Estudios Hispánicos Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 777 - 799 |
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Washington University
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