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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Form and Subject in Iberian Literature, 854–1492
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SUMMARY:Form and Subject in Iberian Literature, 854–1492
DESCRIPTION:<p><span>RLL doctoral candidate <strong>Adam Mahler </strong>(Spanish &amp; Portuguese)&nbsp;will defend his doctoral dissertation, </span><em><span>Form and Subject in Iberian Literature,&nbsp;854–1492</span></em><span>,&nbsp;on April 24, 10:30 a.m., in Boylston G35 and on </span><a href="https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96452173160?pwd=xT2slcV1AVBuapO5verSbAsf20nONa.1"><span>Zoom</span></a><span>.&nbsp;The dissertation argues that poetic form in medieval Iberia was not inherited but made—that is, socially&nbsp;precipitated, and with material antecedents.&nbsp;Closely reading&nbsp;Galician-Portuguese,&nbsp;Old Spanish, and Hebrew lyric poetry alongside legislation, inquisitorial records, sediment analyses, and other non-literary&nbsp;sources, it theorizes a&nbsp;non-modern&nbsp;sound studies attuned to the lived history of verse forms, across axes such as class and ethnorace. Three case studies examine the ecopoetics&nbsp;of Dom Dinis, early attestations of Blackness in the invective tradition, and the commodification of the Romance vernacular within the Ibero-Jewish courtier class. The defense is open to all, with a reception to follow.&nbsp;</span></p>
LOCATION:Boylston G35 & Zoom
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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