Abstract

One of the more serious challenges to traditional methodologies employed in the study of medieval Hispanic literature has come from recent developments in literary theory, in particular, theories of textuality. This challenge consists in part of a revision of assumptions regarding the value and importance or even the meaning and nature of literature. But it also is true that recent literary theory oftentimes tends towards the restatement of notions that are by now clich4s of medieval scholarship, even as it does so in a new-and distinctly uncomfortable-way. It might be said that the problem begins with the concept of the text itself. Peter Haidu remarks:

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