The rise and fall of Amadis de Gaule invites a case study of the time-bound nature of readers' reading. The contemporary status of translations justifies regarding Amadis as an independent entity. The paradigms governing it reappear in many familiar contemporary works; what we learn from Amadis applies broadly to sixteenth-century texts.
Language
English
Pages
193
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
University of Delaware Press
Release
January 01, 1999
ISBN
0874136687
ISBN 13
9780874136685
Reading In The Renaissance: Amadis De Gaule And The Lessons Of Memory
The rise and fall of Amadis de Gaule invites a case study of the time-bound nature of readers' reading. The contemporary status of translations justifies regarding Amadis as an independent entity. The paradigms governing it reappear in many familiar contemporary works; what we learn from Amadis applies broadly to sixteenth-century texts.