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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. in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoReview 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 in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoReview 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 in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoReview 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 in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoReview 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 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. in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoReview 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 in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoReview 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.’ in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoReview 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. in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoReview 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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selisker deposited The Bechdel Test and the Social Form of Character Networks in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis essay describes the popular Bechdel Test—a measure of women’s dialogue in films—in terms of social network analysis within fictional narrative. It argues that this form of vernacular criticism arrives at a productive convergence with contemporary academic critical methodologies in surface and postcritical reading practices, on the one hand,…[Read more]
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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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Isidro de Jesús Rivera started the topic La corónica Commons — Call for Papers Calendar in the discussion
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months ago
If you would like to submit a Call for Papers or announce an upcoming conference on La corónica Commons (http://lcc.ku.edu/calendar/ ), please send the information to the Site Administrator(s) (lcc@ku.edu) or contact the Managing Editor (ijrivera@ku.edu).
On La corónica Commons, we invite collaboration to advance Ibero-m…[Read more]
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Isidro de Jesús Rivera started the topic Abstracts for "New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies" for #MLA18 in the discussion
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoAbstracts available for <s>#</s><b>MLA18</b> session, “New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies”, now available at LcCommons
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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, 11 months agoDo they like Reilly? Do you?
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Maria Willstedt 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, 11 months agoHi David,
I have never taught a gen ed course, but the book I use for my Hispanic Studies students is Bernard Reilly’s The Medieval Spains. Cambridge UP, 1993. There may be something newer out, though.
Saludos,
María W.
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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, 11 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 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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Donny Vigil started the topic MLA 2018 Call For Papers: Language Theory Session…"Philology Old and New" in the discussion
Language Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe Forum on Language Theory is accepting proposals for a panel session related to “Philology Old and New” for MLA 2018 in New York. We welcome submissions that examine what the renewed interest in philology means for literary, textual, and linguistic studies. Please send a 300-word abstract by March 24 to Donny Vigil (vigi7700@stthomas.edu).
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Donny Vigil started the topic MLA 2018 Call For Papers: Language Theory Session…"The Language of Silence" in the discussion
Language Theory on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe Forum on Language Theory is accepting proposals for a panel session related to “The Language of Silence” for MLA 2018 in New York. We welcome submissions on how recent political rhetoric regarding immigration leads to insecurity in educational settings including changes in language, discourse, pedagogy and programs. Please send a 300-word abs…[Read more]
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Isidro de Jesús Rivera started the topic Medieval Iberian LLC Sessions at MLA 2018, NYC in the discussion
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoSessions organized by Medieval Iberian Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC) at the 2018 MLA Convention.
Location: New York City, NY
Date: 4-7 January 2018New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies
Papers on new works, new methodologies or new critical approaches to Medieval Iberian literature or culture.
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Isidro de Jesús Rivera started the topic Medieval Iberian LLC Sessions at MLA 2018, NYC in the discussion
Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoSessions organized by Medieval Iberian Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC) at the 2018 MLA Convention.
Location: New York City, NY
Date: 4-7 January 2018<h4>New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies</h4>
Papers on new works, new methodologies or new critical approaches to Medieval Iberian literature or culture.
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