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Jesús R. Velasco deposited Spatial Affinities: Poetry and Law in the group
LLC Occitan on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe spatial affinity between poetry and the law is an interesting theoretical fiction to understand how the construction of the legal discipline is a process to turn all possible spatial affinities into spatial subalternities, into spatial submissions. One could say that legal spaces, the legal production of spaces, is a way to summon up different…[Read more]
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Valerie Hannon Smitherman posted an update in the group
Graeco-Arabic Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoA question for the group (apologies if I am posting this in the wrong place):
Has anyone here looked at lexical borrowings from Greek into Arabic? Word lists/bibliography appreciated.
Cheers,
Valerie-
Dear Valerie,
You might be interested Nikolai Serikoff’s (https://ivran.academia.edu/NikolajSerikoff) work on the subject, especially extracts from his “Greek and Arabic Dictionary” and “Greek loan words in Arabic.”
Best wishes,
Alex-
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Dear Alex,
Thanks very much for these — I really appreciate your help!
Best,
Valerie
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Poetics from Athens to al-Andalus: Ibn Rushd’s Grounds for Comparison,” Modern Philology 112 (2014): 1-24. in the group
Graeco-Arabic Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThe Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Poetics by the Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd (d. 1198) has been treated by commentators as wide-ranging as Borges, Renan, and Kilito as an exemplary case of the failure of translation. Critics who presume Ibn Rushd’s failure often concentrate on his rendering of Aristotle’s tragedy and comedy by praise…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts created the group
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Carol Zuses started the topic Solicitation of Membership Suggestions for First Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Provençal Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThe first-ever election for LLC Occitan’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is req…[Read more]
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Sarah-Grace Heller replied to the topic Troubadour Publics and Public Troubadours in the discussion
Provençal Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoHere is the plan for the 2016 session. Thanks to all who submitted proposals!
Troubadour Publics and Public Troubadours
Presider: Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco, Columbia U
International politics and troubadour rhetoric: the survival of the fittest
Bill Burgwinkle, University of Cambridge
“De paraulas es grans mercatz”: Troubadours, their…[Read more]
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Sarah-Grace Heller started the topic Troubadour Publics and Public Troubadours in the discussion
Provençal Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoMLA Convention in Austin, Texas, 7-10 January 2016
LLC Occitan Forum Call for Papers for MLA convention 2016 in Austin, TX:
Who had/has access to the Troubadours? What troubadour works rethink public life? What happens to Occitan works when they travel? This panel seeks to explore Occitan works in the wider world and the wider world as fashioned…[Read more]
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