Open AccessMÉTRICA AUTÓCTONA
Author(s) -
Martin J. Duffell
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
rhythmica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2660-6062
pISSN - 1696-5744
DOI - 10.5944/rhythmica.13131
Subject(s) - garcia , read aloud , reading aloud , reading (process) , art , literacy , literature , linguistics , humanities , history , classics , psychology , philosophy , pedagogy
THE authors of medieval texts, as Michel Garcia notes (1978: 48), intended them to be read, or sung, aloud: when books were rare and expensive and literacy limited, reading silently and alone was a luxury. Many of the medieval Hispanic texts that have survived are in verse, and their authors made this choice for a number of reasons.