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Author Wacks, David A

Title Framing Iberia : Maqamat and frametale narratives in medieval Spain / by David A. Wacks
Published Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages)
Series Medieval and early modern Iberian world, 1569-1934 ; v. 33
Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 33. 1569-1934
Contents Writing across the frontier -- Storytelling and performance in medieval Iberian frametale and Maqāma -- The cultural context of the translation of Calila e Dimna -- Reconquest ideology and Andalusī narrative practice in the Conde Lucanor -- The Libro de buen amor and the medieval Iberian Maqāma -- Social change, misogyny, and the Maqāma in Jaume Roig's Spill
Summary Presents a study of medieval Iberian culture observed through the lens of the frametale, a type of story collection cultivated by medieval Iberian authors in several languages. This volume draws on critical theory and cultural studies in reevaluating how the multicultural society of medieval Iberia is reflected in its narrative literature
Notes Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Berkeley, 2003)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-264) and index
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Subject Spanish fiction -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
Spanish fiction -- Arab influences
Framework stories, Spanish -- History and criticism
Framework stories, Spanish
Spanish fiction
Kaderverhalen.
Arabisch.
Hebreeuws.
Makama's.
Islamitisch Spanje.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047419747
904741974X