Framing Iberia : : Maqamat and frametale narratives in medieval Spain / / by David A. Wacks.

• Superior document: Medieval and early modern Iberian world, v. 33
• Author: Wacks, David A.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 33.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of California, Berkeley, 2003).

Framing Iberia is 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. Its best known examples outside of Iberia are Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales , Boccaccio’s Decameron , and the Thousand and One Nights . In Framing Iberia the author relocates the Castilian classics El Conde Lucanor and El Libro de buen amor within a literary tradition that includes works in Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, and Romance. In doing so, he draws on current critical theory and cultural studies in reevaluating how the multicultural society of medieval Iberia is reflected in its narrative literature. Winner of the 2009 La corónica International Book Award for scholarship in Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Also available in paperback ISBN 978 9004 20589 5

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / D.A. Wacks -- Introduction / D.A. Wacks -- Chapter One. Writing across the frontier / D.A. Wacks -- Chapter Two. Storytelling and performance in medieval iberian frametale and Maqāma / D.A. Wacks -- Chapter Three. The cultural context of the translation of Calila E Dimna / D.A. Wacks -- Chapter Four. Reconquest ideology and andalusï narrative practice in the Conde Lucanor / D.A. Wacks -- Chapter Five. The Libro de buen amor and the medieval iberian Maqāma / D.A. Wacks -- Chapter Six. Social change, misogyny, and the Maqāma in Jaume Roig’s spill / D.A. Wacks -- Works cited / D.A. Wacks -- Index / D.A. Wacks.