Stories and Storytelling in the "Libro De Buen Amor"

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Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
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Jayne, Cynthia Powell
STORIES AND STORYTELLING IN THE "ÜBRO DE BUEN AMOR": JUAN
RUIZ’S USE OF FOLKTALES TO ADMONISH, PERSUADE AND DECEIVE
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STORIES AND STORYTELLING IN THE
LIBRO PE BUEN AMOR
JUAN RUIZ'S USE OF FOLKTALES TO
ADMONISH, PERSUADE AND DECEIVE
A Dissertation
Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the
Louisiana State University and
Agricultural and Mechanical College
in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
in
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
by
Cynthia Powell Jayne
B.A., Mississippi College, 1970
M.A., Louisiana State University, 1976
May 1986
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CYNTHIA POWELL JAYNE
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Writers often acknowledge that a task such as this could not
have been completed without the love and encouragement of family
and friends. Truly, I cannot adequately express my thanks to all
the people who shouldered extra responsibilities so that I could
be free to study and write. Among these, I am especially grateful
to my parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Powell, who welcomed me home
time after time to work on this degree; my children Tom and Don,
who started the venture, and Ray and Alicia, who saw it through
from beginning to end; my husband Keith, who has worked as hard as
I have, and whose love and dedication never failed.
Many of the faculty and staff of LSU have offered assistance
during these years of study. I sincerely appreciate Professors
Frank DeCaro, Alfredo Lozada, Frederick DeArmas, Harry Kirby, and
Pierre Hart for their encouragement and suggestions in support of
this project. Above all, I am indebted to Professor Margaret
Parker for her guidance, both professional and personal. She is
not only an inspiring scholar and advisor, but a mentor and
friend.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......................................... ii
ABSTRACT................................................ iv
INTRODUCTION ............................................ 1
CHAPTER I The Study of Folklore in Literature.............28
CHAPTER II The Medieval Tale and Tale Collections......... 53
CHAPTER III Analysis of Tales— Narrative Setting...........80
CHAPTER IV Analysis of Tales— Dialogue Setting .......... 127
CONCLUSION ............................................153
BIBLIOGRAPHY .......................................... 169
VITA ................................................. 181
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ABSTRACT
The Libro de buen amor, a fourteenth century Spanish text by
Juan Ruiz, is an extensive and complex poem rich in partially
hidden messages. Thirty-five popular medieval tales form an
integral part of the body of the work, and convey important
information to the reader through the text of the tales and
through the storytelling context created by the author.
Scholars have studied the tales most often from an historical
perspective, and analyzed them separately from the central
narrative; or have studied the textual materials with little
emphasis on the function of the tales. Although such studies
provide valuable information, they do not deal with the
interpretation of the folktales in relation to the work as a
whole. Significant information that is embedded in the context of
the storytelling event created within the literary work may be
overlooked by approaches which examine only textual materials.
This analysis of the tales uses criteria suggested by
folklorists* studies of observable folklore as a means of
discovering the complex relationship of the tales to the literary
work and their contribution to the Libro de buen amor. The
messages communicated through the text and context of folktales
are often ambiguous or even contradictory, but examination of the
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