| Title: | Los personajes cervantinos como lectores: breve historia social y cultural de la lectura como práctica |
| Author: | Sarah Malfatti |
| Publication: | Meridian Critic / Analele Universităţii „Ștefan cel Mare” din Suceava. Seria Filologie. A. Lingvistică, B. Literatură, 27 (2), Section Critical dossier: Shakespeare and Cervantes, p. 99-110 |
| p-ISSN: | 2069-6787 |
| Publisher: | Editura Universităţii din Suceava |
| Place: | Suceava |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Abstract: | This essay aims to provide a definition of the characters/readers of the Cervantine novel through the analysis of the material aspects of books’ circulation and through the study of the editorial products in Cervantes’ time. In order to understand the social structure and the interpretive strategies of the readers in Golden Age Spain, we have to start from the description of the cultural network related to the invention of the mobile press. This technological revolution and its uncountable consequences are indeed the very starting point of Cervantes’ novel, and its influence concerns not only the practical aspects of reading, but also the mental structures involved in the interpretive act. The theoretical and methodological premises of this work are the following: the role of the reader in the signification process of a text or a message and the historical and contingent nature of the interpretive act. |
| Key words: | Cervantes, reading practices, press, interpretive strategies, historicity |
| Language: | Spanish |
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