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David Wacks deposited Review of Maravillas, peregrinaciones y utopías: literatura de viajes en el mundo románico. Ed. Rafael Beltrán. Valencia: Universitat de Valencia, 2002. on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Review of Maravillas, peregrinaciones y utopías: literatura de viajes en el mundo románico. Ed. Rafael Beltrán. Valencia: Universitat de Valencia, 2002. Originally published in Bulletin of Spanish Studies 80.6 (2003): 743-44.
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David Wacks deposited Review of Mocedades de Rodrigo. Ed. Leonardo Funes, with Felipe Tenenbaum. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis. 2004 on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Review of Mocedades de Rodrigo. Ed. Leonardo Funes, with Felipe Tenenbaum. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Tamesis. 2004. Originally published in Bulletin of Spanish Studies 83.8 (2006): 982-83.
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David Wacks deposited Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Review of Barletta, Vincent. Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Originally published in Hispania 89.1 (2006): 50-52.
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David Wacks deposited Review of Young, Douglas C. Rogues and Genres: Generic Transformation in the Spanish Picaresque and Arabic Maqāma. Newark: Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004 on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Review of Young, Douglas C. Rogues and Genres: Generic Transformation in the Spanish Picaresque and Arabic Maqāma. Newark: Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2004. Originally published in Aljamía 19 (529-531).
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David Wacks deposited Review of Díaz-Mas, Paloma. Sephardim: The Jews from Spain. Ed. and trans. George K. Zucker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Review of Díaz-Mas, Paloma. Sephardim: The Jews from Spain. Ed. and trans. George K. Zucker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Originally published in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 33.1 (33-34).
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David Wacks deposited Review of Ryan Szpiech ,Conversion and Narrative: Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic. (Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. 328. $59.95. ISBN: 9780812244717. on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Review of Szpiech, Ryan. Conversion and Narrative: Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic (Middle Ages Series). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Orignially published in Speculum 88.3 (853-855).
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David Wacks deposited Review of Hook, David, ed. The Arthur of the Iberians: The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2015 on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Review of Hook, David, ed. The Arthur of the Iberians: The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2015. Orignally published in Arthuriana 26.4 (2016): 78-81.
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David Wacks deposited Review of Robinson, Cynthia. ‘Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile: The Virgin, Christ, Devotions, and Images in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.’ on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Review of Robinson, Cynthia. Imagining the Passion in a Multiconfessional Castile: The Virgin, Christ, Devotions, and Images in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. Originally published in Revista Hispánica 69.1 (109-112).
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David Wacks deposited Review of Tabea Linhard, Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2014. 230pp. on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Review of Tabea Linhard’s ‘Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory’ (2016): “These essays are nothing short of a manifesto of new Spanish Jewish cultural studies, an area that has long been wanting a champion. In this sense, Jewish Spain is an exciting departure in the study of the Jewish experience and memory in modern Spain.”
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David Wacks started the topic [essay] "An interstitial history of Medieval Iberian poetry" in the discussion
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues, here’s a link to a self-archived author’s postprint (Open Access) version of my contribution to the recently published The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies (eds. Javier Múñoz-Basols, Laura Lonsdale, and Manuel Delgado).
For purposes of academic publication, please cite publisher’s version of record: Wacks, David A. “An Inter…[Read more]
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David Wacks replied to the topic Rough equivalent of Zinn's 'People's History' for Medieval Iberia? in the discussion
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDo they like Reilly? Do you?
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David Wacks started the topic Rough equivalent of Zinn's 'People's History' for Medieval Iberia? in the discussion
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoWhat would you assign in English to give 100-level gen ed students a broad yet critical (think Howard Zinn’s People’s History) overview of medieval Iberian cultural history? I have good material for Latin America and Modern Spain, but nothing for premodernity (or whatever you want to call it). Thanks! David
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David A. Wacks posted an update in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoblog post: “Ramon Llull’s Missionary Crusade in Blanquerna ca. 1280” http://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2017/03/01/blanquerna/
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David A. Wacks posted an update in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoblog post: “Ramon Llull’s Missionary Crusade in Blanquerna ca. 1280” http://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2017/03/01/blanquerna/
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David Wacks started the topic Graphic novels in English on Hispanic/Latino world in the discussion
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis fall I am piloting a gen Ed 100-level course on Cultures of the Spanish-Speaking world in comics. Can anyone recommend good teachable graphic novels on the pre-Columbian world and/or discovery, and also on topics in 18th/19th c.? I’m planning on using Fuentes’ _Buried Mirror_ to frame it and bring short primary documents interspersed with the…
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David A. Wacks posted an update on Humanities Commons 9 years ago
Colleague @gkaplan Gregory Kaplan just published ‘Arguments Against the Christian Faith in Amsterdam by Saul Levi Morteira, Spinoza’s Rabbi’ http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462980105-arguments-against-the-christian-religion-in-amsterdam-by-saul-levi-morteira-spinoza-s-rabbi.html?mc_cid=d31a4051a6&mc_eid=76b4013318#.WIs-B1SnyK0.facebook
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David A. Wacks posted an update in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 9 years agoGregory Kaplan just published ‘Arguments against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam, by Saul Levi Morteira, Spinoza’s Rabbi’
http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462980105-arguments-against-the-christian-religion-in-amsterdam-by-saul-levi-morteira-spinoza-s-rabbi.html?mc_cid=d31a4051a6&mc_eid=76b4013318#.WIs-B1SnyK0.facebook -
David Wacks deposited Translation in Diaspora: Sephardic Spanish-Hebrew translations in the sixteenth century in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIn this essay, I discuss three Hebrew translations made by Sephardic Jews writing in from a position of a double diaspora (from ‘Zion’ and from Sepharad, or Spain): Joseph Tsarfati’s Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, Jacob Algaba’s Amadís de Gaula by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, and Joseph Hakohen’s Historia general de las Indias by Francisco L…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited Translation in Diaspora: Sephardic Spanish-Hebrew translations in the sixteenth century in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIn this essay, I discuss three Hebrew translations made by Sephardic Jews writing in from a position of a double diaspora (from ‘Zion’ and from Sepharad, or Spain): Joseph Tsarfati’s Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, Jacob Algaba’s Amadís de Gaula by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, and Joseph Hakohen’s Historia general de las Indias by Francisco L…[Read more]
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David Wacks deposited Translation in Diaspora: Sephardic Spanish-Hebrew translations in the sixteenth century in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIn this essay, I discuss three Hebrew translations made by Sephardic Jews writing in from a position of a double diaspora (from ‘Zion’ and from Sepharad, or Spain): Joseph Tsarfati’s Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, Jacob Algaba’s Amadís de Gaula by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, and Joseph Hakohen’s Historia general de las Indias by Francisco L…[Read more]
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