SOURCE: Pattison, D. G. “How Many Cantares Are There in the Poema de mio Cid?” The Modern Language Review 88, no. 2 (April 1993): 337-42.
In the following essay, Pattison questions the common practice of dividing the Cantar de mio Cid into three cantares, maintaining that this somewhat arbitrary division diminishes the poem's complexity.
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