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  • Don Yllan and the Egyptian Sorceror: Vernacular commonality and literary diversity in medieval Castile

    Author(s):
    David Wacks (see profile)
    Date:
    2005
    Group(s):
    CLCS Medieval, LLC Medieval Iberian, Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History, Literature, and Culture, Sephardi / Mizrahi Studies
    Subject(s):
    Literature, Medieval, Spanish language
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Medieval Iberian Literature, narratology, Medieval literature
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6031J
    Abstract:
    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 the two tales shared a common source in Castilian oral tradition. The appearance of the tale in an earlier Hebrew text from Castile (the only other known version in any language) calls into question the originality of Don Juan Manuel's most famous exemplo, suggesting a productive interplay between a common oral tradition in Castilian and coexisting literary traditions in Hebrew and Castilian.
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    Published as:
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    Publisher:
    Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
    Pub. Date:
    2005
    Journal:
    Sefarad
    Volume:
    62
    Issue:
    2
    Page Range:
    413 - 433
    ISSN:
    0037-089
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    7 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

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