Vincent Barletta
Biographic Data
| ID | 82549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Barletta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Barletta |
| SIGNATURE | BARLETTA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9577-1921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Odysseus and the Siren Song of Knowledge
This article rereads Odysseus’s encounter with the Sirens in the Odyssey through the lens of sound, arguing that the episode stages a foundational tension between knowledge and alterity in Western thought. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas’s notion of the “temptation of temptation,” the essay shows how Odysseus’s famous stratagem—hearing the Sirens while bound to the mast—models a form of mediated proximity that allows sound to be collected without eth…
Oswald de Andrade and the Cannibalist Science of Others' Blood
In the present essay, we offer a close examination of Oswald de Andrade's call for blood transfusers in the "Manifesto antropófago." Documenting specific forms of scientific innovation and references to blood transfusion in the broader cultural field, we argue for an approach to the "Manifesto" that considers Haroldo de Campos's arguments regarding the national/universal dialectic at the center of Oswald's text while also addressing more fully th…
Kaddish Yatom: “Kaddish Yatom”
Ainda há tempo para a história? O que significa tratar do passado quando o futuro está em dúvida? Olhando para os efeitos cataclísmicos das mudanças climáticas, pode parecer “fora do tempo” contar com o passado, especialmente considerando a possibilidade de que em breve não haja mais ninguém para ler o que escrevemos. No presente ensaio, começo com a análise de Emmanuel Levinas da “filosofia do hitlerismo” (1934) em um esforço para explorar o que…
Closeness and manuscript culture
Why devote a special issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies to closeness and manuscript culture? What, we might ask, can the medieval period teach us about questions of technology, practi
Closeness before the law: Purity, prayer, and al-Tulaytulī’s Mukhtasar
The present study focuses on the intersection between Islamic jurisprudence, poetics, and manuscript culture in the secret Muslim communities (moriscos) of sixteenth-century Aragon. Using as a theoretical rubric the Islamic legal concept of curf (“custom”), I argue that early modern Aragonese Muslims made use of handwritten Islamic legal texts, and the physical books that contained them, to incorporate specific and adaptive local innovations into…
Lusofonia and Eternal Empire: Notes from the Sixteenth Century
Framed as love and commonality, as a shared patrimony, as the eternal spirit of empire, or as a "sad and ridiculous" attempt to exert influence long after the fact, the workings of Lusofonia may or may not have evolved over the past five centuries. What seems clear, however, is that the Portuguese language has been understood since at least the sixteenth century as not only the "companion" or tool of Portugal's empire, but rather as its most endu…
Paisagem e erudiçao no humanismo português João Rodrigues de Sá de Meneses — De Platano (1527–1537)
João Rodrigues de Sá de Meneses. Paisagem e erudiçao no humanismo português João Rodrigues de Sá de Meneses — De Platano (1527–1537). Ed., Ana María S. Tarrío. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2009. 340 pp. index. bibl. €20. ISBN: 978–972–31–1293–1. - Volume 63 Issue 4
Deixis, taqiyya, and textual mediation in crypto-Muslim Aragon
The present article is an analysis of the scribal and lectoral activities of crypto-Muslim minority communities within sixteenth-century Aragon (Spain). Looking specifically at traditional Islamic texts translated into Ibero-Romance and copied out in Arabic script (a largely ad hoc writing system that modern scholars have termed aljamiado [pronounced: al-xam-yAH-ðo]), this article focuses on the ways in which these texts index specific frameworks…
Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain
Review of Barletta, Vincent. Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Originally published in Hispania 89.1 (2006): 50-52
A Companion to the Libro de buen amor
Este nuevo volumen ofrece ensayos de especialistas anglofonos sobre el de Buen Amor, obra monumental del siglo XIV. El volumen responde a la necesidad de un enfoque actualizado que examina el estado de las cuestiones principales (como son la de la autoria y su contexto, la metrica, las tradiciones manuscrita e impresa, el uso de exempla y proverbios, y las aproximaciones teoricas al Libro) y sus implicaciones para una lectura del Libro. Ademas ap…
Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain
The Evolution of Converso Literature: The Writings of the Converted Jews of Medieval Spain
During the early 15th century, many Spanish Jews converted to Christianity to escape persecution in the wake of widespread anti-Jewish violence in the 1390s. The extent to which the literature written by these conversos accurately reflects their social and legal alienation from the Old Christian (non-converso) population has long been debated. This book is the first comprehensive examination of this literature, setting its parameters and providin…
Poetry at Court in Trastamaran Spain: From the Cancionero de Baena to the Cancionero General
Poetry at Court in Trastamaran Spain: From the Cancionero de Baena to the Cancionero General. Eds. E. Michael Gerli and Julian Weiss. Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1998. 297 pages. This volume represents a collection of essays given at a conference held at Georgetown University, Washington, DC February 11-14, 1993. As Julian Weiss states in the volume's Introduction, the volume's editors have tried to gather together a re…
Ten‐Year Index of JLA
Vernacular Literacy: A Re-Evaluation
Vernacular Literacy:. Re-Evaluation. Andrée Tabouret-Keller. Robert B. Le Page. Penelope Gardner Chloros. and Gabrielle Varro. eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 367 pp
Vernacular Literacy: A Re-Evaluation
Vernacular Literacy:. Re-Evaluation. Andrée Tabouret-Keller. Robert B. Le Page. Penelope Gardner Chloros. and Gabrielle Varro. eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 367 pp
Poetry at Court in Trastamaran Spain: From the Cancionero de Baena to the Cancionero General
Poetry at Court in Trastamaran Spain: From the Cancionero de Baena to the Cancionero General. Eds. E. Michael Gerli and Julian Weiss. Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1998. 297 pages. This volume represents a collection of essays given at a conference held at Georgetown University, Washington, DC February 11-14, 1993. As Julian Weiss states in the volume's Introduction, the volume's editors have tried to gather together a re…
Ten‐Year Index of JLA
Vernacular Literacy: A Re-Evaluation
Vernacular Literacy:. Re-Evaluation. Andrée Tabouret-Keller. Robert B. Le Page. Penelope Gardner Chloros. and Gabrielle Varro. eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 367 pp
Poetry at Court in Trastamaran Spain: From the Cancionero de Baena to the Cancionero General
Poetry at Court in Trastamaran Spain: From the Cancionero de Baena to the Cancionero General. Eds. E. Michael Gerli and Julian Weiss. Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1998. 297 pages. This volume represents a collection of essays given at a conference held at Georgetown University, Washington, DC February 11-14, 1993. As Julian Weiss states in the volume's Introduction, the volume's editors have tried to gather together a re…
Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain
The Evolution of Converso Literature: The Writings of the Converted Jews of Medieval Spain
During the early 15th century, many Spanish Jews converted to Christianity to escape persecution in the wake of widespread anti-Jewish violence in the 1390s. The extent to which the literature written by these conversos accurately reflects their social and legal alienation from the Old Christian (non-converso) population has long been debated. This book is the first comprehensive examination of this literature, setting its parameters and providin…
Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain
Review of Barletta, Vincent. Covert Gestures: Crypto-Islamic Literature as Cultural Practice in Early Modern Spain. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Originally published in Hispania 89.1 (2006): 50-52
A Companion to the Libro de buen amor
Este nuevo volumen ofrece ensayos de especialistas anglofonos sobre el de Buen Amor, obra monumental del siglo XIV. El volumen responde a la necesidad de un enfoque actualizado que examina el estado de las cuestiones principales (como son la de la autoria y su contexto, la metrica, las tradiciones manuscrita e impresa, el uso de exempla y proverbios, y las aproximaciones teoricas al Libro) y sus implicaciones para una lectura del Libro. Ademas ap…
Deixis, taqiyya, and textual mediation in crypto-Muslim Aragon
The present article is an analysis of the scribal and lectoral activities of crypto-Muslim minority communities within sixteenth-century Aragon (Spain). Looking specifically at traditional Islamic texts translated into Ibero-Romance and copied out in Arabic script (a largely ad hoc writing system that modern scholars have termed aljamiado [pronounced: al-xam-yAH-ðo]), this article focuses on the ways in which these texts index specific frameworks…
Paisagem e erudiçao no humanismo português João Rodrigues de Sá de Meneses — De Platano (1527–1537)
João Rodrigues de Sá de Meneses. Paisagem e erudiçao no humanismo português João Rodrigues de Sá de Meneses — De Platano (1527–1537). Ed., Ana María S. Tarrío. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2009. 340 pp. index. bibl. €20. ISBN: 978–972–31–1293–1. - Volume 63 Issue 4
Closeness and manuscript culture
Why devote a special issue of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies to closeness and manuscript culture? What, we might ask, can the medieval period teach us about questions of technology, practi
Closeness before the law: Purity, prayer, and al-Tulaytulī’s Mukhtasar
The present study focuses on the intersection between Islamic jurisprudence, poetics, and manuscript culture in the secret Muslim communities (moriscos) of sixteenth-century Aragon. Using as a theoretical rubric the Islamic legal concept of curf (“custom”), I argue that early modern Aragonese Muslims made use of handwritten Islamic legal texts, and the physical books that contained them, to incorporate specific and adaptive local innovations into…
Lusofonia and Eternal Empire: Notes from the Sixteenth Century
Framed as love and commonality, as a shared patrimony, as the eternal spirit of empire, or as a "sad and ridiculous" attempt to exert influence long after the fact, the workings of Lusofonia may or may not have evolved over the past five centuries. What seems clear, however, is that the Portuguese language has been understood since at least the sixteenth century as not only the "companion" or tool of Portugal's empire, but rather as its most endu…
Kaddish Yatom: “Kaddish Yatom”
Ainda há tempo para a história? O que significa tratar do passado quando o futuro está em dúvida? Olhando para os efeitos cataclísmicos das mudanças climáticas, pode parecer “fora do tempo” contar com o passado, especialmente considerando a possibilidade de que em breve não haja mais ninguém para ler o que escrevemos. No presente ensaio, começo com a análise de Emmanuel Levinas da “filosofia do hitlerismo” (1934) em um esforço para explorar o que…
Oswald de Andrade and the Cannibalist Science of Others' Blood
In the present essay, we offer a close examination of Oswald de Andrade's call for blood transfusers in the "Manifesto antropófago." Documenting specific forms of scientific innovation and references to blood transfusion in the broader cultural field, we argue for an approach to the "Manifesto" that considers Haroldo de Campos's arguments regarding the national/universal dialectic at the center of Oswald's text while also addressing more fully th…
Odysseus and the Siren Song of Knowledge
This article rereads Odysseus’s encounter with the Sirens in the Odyssey through the lens of sound, arguing that the episode stages a foundational tension between knowledge and alterity in Western thought. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas’s notion of the “temptation of temptation,” the essay shows how Odysseus’s famous stratagem—hearing the Sirens while bound to the mast—models a form of mediated proximity that allows sound to be collected without eth…
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