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Minni Sawhney deposited Friendship and Politics in the works of Cervantes and Lope de Vega in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe convivencia between the followers of the different religions of the Mediterranean persisted despite the fraught politics of Christianity and Islam. Despite the long arm of the Inquisition the protagonists in the plays of Cervantes and Lope struggle to maintain fraternal ties.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Cervantes’ cosmopolitan El gallardo español during an earlier clash of civilisations. in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoDespite being an army officer Don Fernando is drawn towards the Muslim Princess Arlaxa. He defies army convention to meet her much to the chagrin of fellow Spanish soldiers in the presidio where they are stationed.
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Minni Sawhney deposited The Agency of Muslim Women in the Narrative of Cervantes in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoDespite prevailing stereotypes, the Muslim women in Cervantes’ captivity plays are forthright, ambitious and endowed with considerable agency. Though there is no evidence that Cervantes had read Erasmus, yet his portrayal of women shows them as standing their ground during adversity.
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Minni Sawhney deposited “La frontera hispano-musulmana en El Hamete de Toledo y El cordobés valeroso Pedro Carbonero de Lope de Vega” in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoEl reflejo del islam en dos obras de Lope de Vega.
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Minni Sawhney deposited La evolución de la sensibilidad islámica en el teatro de Cervantes in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoPortrayal of Muslims in Cervantes drama
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Minni Sawhney deposited Fantasy and the Honour Code: Lope’s “La viuda valenciana and “El cordobés valeroso Pedro Carbonero in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoPortrayal of Otherness in Lope’s dramas
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Minni Sawhney deposited Distintos enfoques para enseñar el teatro calderoniano en la India. in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this work I show how the writings of Spanish historians such as José Antonio Maravall, Américo Castro y Dominguez Ortiz have been useful in the teaching of Calderon’s drama in India.
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Minni Sawhney deposited Distintos enfoques para enseñar el teatro calderoniano en la India. in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoIn this work I show how the writings of Spanish historians such as José Antonio Maravall, Américo Castro y Dominguez Ortiz have been useful in the teaching of Calderon’s drama in India.
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Noemi Martin Santo deposited “Vive el Sol, / si Dios le debo llamar”. La conversión de un príncipe en Los mártires del Japón de Lope de Vega in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis article examines the conversion to Christianity of the prince Tayco in the comedia de santos Los mártires del Japón by Lope de Vega and the creation of the Dominican missionary Alonso de Navarrete as a dramatic character. Lope portraits Tayco as a young prince who has to learn how to become a king, having Navarrete as a role model. Lope c…[Read more]
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Noemi Martin Santo deposited “Vive el Sol, / si Dios le debo llamar”. La conversión de un príncipe en Los mártires del Japón de Lope de Vega in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis article examines the conversion to Christianity of the prince Tayco in the comedia de santos Los mártires del Japón by Lope de Vega and the creation of the Dominican missionary Alonso de Navarrete as a dramatic character. Lope portraits Tayco as a young prince who has to learn how to become a king, having Navarrete as a role model. Lope c…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic Special Issue Journal Spanish Cultural Studies Entering the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoNew double special issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Vol 20 Issues 1-2 (May 2019) entitled “Entering the Global Hispanophone”, edited by Benita Sampedro Vizcaya and Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo, and with contributions by Alberto López Martín, Eric Calderwood, Paula C. Park, Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger, Inés Plasencia Camps, Balta…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Narendra Modi’s victory speech delivers visions of a Hindu nationalist ascetic in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIndia’s re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a victory speech that presented himself as a selfless and humble Hindu ascetic. This vision goes far to promote a Hindu nationalist ‘new India.’
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David A. Wacks deposited Sepharadim/conversos and premodern Global Hispanism in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoSepharadim participated in the Hispanic vernacular culture of the Iberian Peninsula. Even in the time of al-Andalus many spoke Hispano-Romance, and even their Hebrew literature belies a deep familiarity with and love of their native Hispano-Romance languages. However, since the early sixteenth century the vast majority of Sepharadim have never…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sepharadim/conversos and premodern Global Hispanism in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoSepharadim participated in the Hispanic vernacular culture of the Iberian Peninsula. Even in the time of al-Andalus many spoke Hispano-Romance, and even their Hebrew literature belies a deep familiarity with and love of their native Hispano-Romance languages. However, since the early sixteenth century the vast majority of Sepharadim have never…[Read more]
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Edwige Tamalet Talbayev deposited CFP: Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean International Conference (Toulouse, March 26-27, 2020) in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoWe are inviting proposals for the forthcoming “Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean” International Conference that will be held on March 26-27, 2020 in Toulouse, France (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).
Abstracts (300 words) are due by September 15, 2019 to yasser elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu), Isabelle Keller-Privat (isa.…[Read more] -
Michael Ullyot deposited “Wear your eyes thus”: Toward a Cognitive Ecology of VR Shakespeare in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoHow will immersive virtual reality (VR) cognitively affect the audiences who interface with it to interpret Shakespeare performances? Current theories of performance and cognition are based on theatre and film audiences, but VR performances combine features of both media: a disembodied spectral presence, like a theatrical audience; and a flexible…[Read more]
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Michael Ullyot deposited Course Outline: Revenge Tragedy in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoEnglish 412 is, in its official description, “A survey of drama from 1558 to 1603, including works by William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.” In this version from 2017, students focused on six revenge tragedies, the blockbuster genre of the Elizabethan theatre: plays filled with bloody violence, elevated rhetoric, and ghosts imploring…[Read more]
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Jean Dangler started the topic Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Spanish Literatures and Cultures in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoPlease encourage your graduate students and others to apply for our newly created position in Modern Spanish Literatures and Cultures: apply.interfolio.com/62058. We are interested in applicants whose work takes up the literary and cultural connections between Spain and North Africa.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Spanish Literatures and…[Read more]
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Diane Jakacki deposited REED London Online: Publish|Present|Discover|Read in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoSophisticated digital platforms and infrastructures offer scholarly editors opportunities to make textual materials accessible and negotiable online. Still, we feel pressure to reify the passive reading experience within a web browser. The challenge lies in constructing (or reconstructing) our texts to best provide for dynamic text and data…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Gertrude/Ophelia: Feminist Intermediality, Ekphrasis, and Tenderness in _Hamlet_ in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay argues that feminists can productively use theories of intermediality to consider postmodern representations of Shakespeare’s Ophelia fabricated by women (or by creators self-identified as female, in the case of online avatars), in order to explore the following questions: under what circumstances might we imagine femininity as…[Read more]
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