Language- as signifier and signified-serves as the focus of Diz's book on the Conde Lucanor. “This is animportant work, a brilliant application of semiotics and narratology, precise, clear, and (unusual in such writing) eloquent.”-Peter Dunn, Journal of Hispanic Philology. “Diz's book offers several valuable new insights on the Conde Lucanor.”-Marina Scordilis Brownlee, Hispania. “This is, indeed, an intelligent reading of the Conde Lucanor which will have considerable impact on Juan Manuel criticism and fourteenth-century studies.