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2011 Oregon Humanities Center Work in Progress Talk

Wacks, David A. (2011-04-11)

Discussion of how current critical thinking about diasporic culture can bring Judaic studies approaches to Sephardic literature up to date. Examples from 13th century Spanish Hebrew (Sephardic) author Jacob ben Elazar and ...
Between Sacred and Secular: Abraham ibn Ezra and the Song of Songs

Wacks, David A. (Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2004)
Conflicted Identity and Colonial Adaptation in Petrus Alfonsi’s Dialogus contra judaeos and Disciplina clericalis

Wacks, David A. (Brill, 2012)
Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor: Romance, Conversion, and Internal Orientalism

Wacks, David A. (Wayne State University Press, 2015)

Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor is a medieval romance interpolated into a thirteenth-century account of the struggles of the kings of Asturias (eighth–ninth centuries) with the Umayyad Caliphate in Cordova. In this essay I ...
Don Yllan and the Egyptian Sorceror: Vernacular commonality and literary diversity in medieval Castile

Wacks, David A. (CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, 2005)

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 ...
In Memoriam Ángel Sáenz-Badillos Pérez, 1940-2013

Wacks, David A. (La corónica, 2014)

Summary of biography and scholarly career of Ángel Sáenz-Badillos, prominent Spanish Hebraist
Is Spain's Hebrew Literature 'Spanish'?

Wacks, David A. (Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, 2008)

Discussion of the position of Spanish Hebrew literature in Spanish Literary History vis-a-vis the history of Spanish Hebraism.
Making Knighthood: The Construction of Masculinity in the Ordene de chevalerie, the Livre de chevalerie de Geoffroi de Charny and the Espejo de verdadera nobleza

Tribit, Anthony (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

This dissertation applies the concept of hegemonic masculinity. as first proposed by R.W Connell in her book Masculinities, to three works of medieval chivalric conduct literature. This dissertation asserts that the authors ...
The Performativity of Ibn al-Muqaffa`'s Kalila wa-Dimna and Al-Maqamat al-Luzumiyya of al-Saraqusti

Wacks, David A. (Brill, 2003)
Popular Andalusi literature and Castilian fiction: Ziyad ibn ‘Amir al-Kinani, 101 Nights, and Caballero Zifar

Wacks, David A. (Revista de Poética Medieval, 2015)

There is very little manuscript evidence of the popular (non-courtly) literature of al-Andalus. For this reason it is difficult to assess its importance for the development of Castilian literature, and more broadly, for ...
Reading Jaume Roig's Spill and the Libro de buen amor in the Iberian maqama tradition

Wacks, David A. (Routledge, 2006-07)
Reconquest Colonialism and Andalusi Narrative Practice in Don Juan Manuel's Conde Lucanor

Wacks, David A. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
Recycling the Troubadours in Hebrew: Todros Abulafia, Hebrew Troubadour at the Court of Alfonso X

Wacks, David A. (2011-02-18)

Troubadours both Provencal and Galician Portuguese were regulars at the court of Alfonso X of Castile-Leon (1252-1284). The “Learned King” himself was a prolific composer of Galician-Portuguese verse both sacred and profane ...
Toward a History of Hispano-Hebrew Literature in its Romance Context

Wacks, David A. (http://www.ehumanista.ucsb.edu/, 2010)

Wacks proposes a new, comprehensive look at the Romance context of the Hebrew Literature of Christian Iberia. He surveys the extant criticism and provides an overview of key texts and their relationship to vernacular ...
Translation in Diaspora: Sephardic Spanish-Hebrew translations in the sixteenth century

Wacks, David A. (Benjamins, 2016)

In 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 ...
Vernacular Anxiety and the Semitic Imaginary: Shem Tov Isaac ibn Ardutiel de Carrión and his Critics

Wacks, David A. (Taylor and Francis, 2012)

Shem Tov ibn Isaac Ardutiel (Santob de Carrión) lived in the fourteenth century, period of intense vernacularization of literary practice in Castile. Shem Tov has long been imagined as a model of multiculturality, and the ...