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Punning on the Mind as Çela in the Libro de buen amor

Punning on the Mind as Çela in the Libro de buen amor Abstract: This article argues that the representation of the memory as çela in the prose sermon of the Libro de buen amor is an Augustinian and monastic, rather than Aristotelian, trope that is central to our understanding of the poem. The trope is extended and complicated by a series of puns on çela that occur at significant intervals across the main body of the text. Study of such puns illuminates the rhetorical patterning of the LBA as generated by mnemonic rumination. Drawing on Augustine’s Confession s and Sermons , the Pamphilus de amore , and medieval poetical treatises, this article demonstrates the continuing importance of monastic mnemotechnics for literary production in fourteenth-century Castile, with implications for future approaches to the theology, philosophy, and poetics of the LBA . http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures La corónica: Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures & Culture

Punning on the Mind as Çela in the Libro de buen amor

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La corónica: Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures & Culture
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1947-4261
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Abstract

Abstract: This article argues that the representation of the memory as çela in the prose sermon of the Libro de buen amor is an Augustinian and monastic, rather than Aristotelian, trope that is central to our understanding of the poem. The trope is extended and complicated by a series of puns on çela that occur at significant intervals across the main body of the text. Study of such puns illuminates the rhetorical patterning of the LBA as generated by mnemonic rumination. Drawing on Augustine’s Confession s and Sermons , the Pamphilus de amore , and medieval poetical treatises, this article demonstrates the continuing importance of monastic mnemotechnics for literary production in fourteenth-century Castile, with implications for future approaches to the theology, philosophy, and poetics of the LBA .

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La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and CulturesLa corónica: Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures & Culture

Published: Oct 19, 2016

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