Michelle Margolis Chesner
,@mchesner
8
Following
6
Followers
-
David Wacks deposited Reconquest Colonialism and Andalusi Narrative Practice in Don Juan Manuel's Conde Lucanor on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months ago
The author argues that Juan Manuel’s willingness to embrace Andalusī narrative genres and materials, including a number of proverbs which he quotes in the original Arabic, seems on the surface to run counter to his official
narrative of Reconquest. However, this apparent contradiction is typical both of the colonial society in which Don Juan Ma…[Read more] -
David Wacks deposited Reading Jaume Roig's Spill and the Libro de buen amor in the Iberian maqama tradition on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months ago
In this article the author argues for the influence of the Hebrew and Arabic maqama on the Libro de buen amor (Juan Ruiz) and Spill (Jaume Roig) based on the narratological disposition of the narrator/protagonist.
-
David A. Wacks changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months ago
-
David Wacks deposited Don Yllan and the Egyptian Sorceror: Vernacular commonality and literary diversity in medieval Castile on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months ago
In this article the author compares the exemplo of Don Yllan and the Dean de Santiago, #11 in Don Juan Manuel’s Conde Lucanor (ca. 1335) with an earlier Hebrew analogue found in the Hebrew Meshal Haqadmoni (ca. 1285) of fellow Castilian author Isaac ibn Sahula. A thorough analysis of the rhetorical and narrative style of both versions reveals that…[Read more]
-
David Wacks deposited Between Secular and Sacred: Abraham ibn Ezra and the Song of Songs on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months ago
The work of the Judeo-Spanish poet and exegete Abraham Ibn Ezra (d. 1167 C.E.) featuring the language of the Song is perhaps the best showcase of the interplay between sacred and secular in Hebrew Andalusī literature. When it comes to the Song, Ibn Ezra literally wrote the book on it, a commentary that gives equal treatment to its literal and…[Read more]
-
David Wacks deposited The Performativity of Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ's Kalīla wa-Dimna and Al- Maqāmāt al-Luzumīyya of al-Saraqusṭi on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months ago
providing a context for the anecdotes and fables narrated by the characters in each text.
The way in which the performativity of each text is constructed reflects their respective
cultural and literary heritage, as well as the performative nature of Medieval Arabic
literature in general. The two texts represent a convergence of different oral…[Read more] -
Sarah Werner's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months ago
-
Sarah Werner's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 9 years, 2 months ago
-
Sarah Werner's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months ago
-
Sarah Werner deposited Looking for a radically open digital landscape in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe digital landscape has the potential to open up rare books and manuscript libraries. If they used to be places where selected people were invited in to witness the display of special items, and those with sufficient expertise were allowed to use items under careful supervision, they now can become radically more open. More institutions are…[Read more]
-
Sarah Werner deposited Looking for a radically open digital landscape in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThe digital landscape has the potential to open up rare books and manuscript libraries. If they used to be places where selected people were invited in to witness the display of special items, and those with sufficient expertise were allowed to use items under careful supervision, they now can become radically more open. More institutions are…[Read more]
-
Sarah Werner deposited Looking for a radically open digital landscape on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months ago
The digital landscape has the potential to open up rare books and manuscript libraries. If they used to be places where selected people were invited in to witness the display of special items, and those with sufficient expertise were allowed to use items under careful supervision, they now can become radically more open. More institutions are…[Read more]
-
Sarah Werner's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years ago
-
Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
-
Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
-
Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
-
Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
-
Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
-
Nearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
-
Sarah Werner started the topic Shakespeare Forum sessions at MLA16 in the discussion
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Shakespeare Forum has put together two sessions at this MLA: a Friday morning panel on “Scales of Time and Shakespeare” and a Saturday afternoon roundtable discussion of “Pedagogical Shakespeare: Text, Performance, and Digitization.” More details on both can be found at our new blog, https://shakespeare.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
- Load More