Luce Lopez-Baralt
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Luce López-Baralt is a professor of Spanish
and Comparative Literature
at the University of Puerto Rico
.
. She has also done work on the literature of Puerto Rico
.
Often serving as a visiting professor, she has taught in at various universities in South America, North America, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Her works have been translated into French, English, German, Dutch, Arabic, Urdu, and Persian.
In November 1998, the Universidad de Puerto Rico held a Congress in honor of Luce López-Baralt and her sister, also an academic, Mercedes López-Baralt (anthropologist, historian, and literary critic).
Professor Luce López-Baralt received her Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Studies from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, her Masters in Romance Literature from New York University
, and her Doctorate in Romance Literature from Harvard University
. She also did post-doctorate work at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and at the American University of Beirut
.
Other Books:
Spanish literature
Spanish literature generally refers to literature written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the state of Spain...
and Comparative Literature
Comparative literature
Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups...
at the University of Puerto Rico
University of Puerto Rico
The University of Puerto Rico is the state university system of Puerto Rico. The system consists of 11 campuses and has approximately 64,511 students and 5,300 faculty members...
.
Academic career
Many of her books and articles present for discussion the mystical literature and religious practices of Spain, renaissance and medieval (including al-Andalus), i.e., both Christian and Muslim. She acknowledges the influence of the early 20th century Spanish Arabist, the Rev. Miguel Asín Palacios, among others. In particular, she has followed traces of the trail that show a fruitful interaction between Muslims and Christians in Iberia, e.g., as it affected San Juan de la Cruz and Santa Teresa de Avila. Evidently, this trail continues on, eventually leading also to the Argentine writer Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...
. She has also done work on the literature of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
.
Often serving as a visiting professor, she has taught in at various universities in South America, North America, Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. Her works have been translated into French, English, German, Dutch, Arabic, Urdu, and Persian.
In November 1998, the Universidad de Puerto Rico held a Congress in honor of Luce López-Baralt and her sister, also an academic, Mercedes López-Baralt (anthropologist, historian, and literary critic).
Professor Luce López-Baralt received her Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Studies from the Universidad de Puerto Rico, her Masters in Romance Literature from New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
, and her Doctorate in Romance Literature from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. She also did post-doctorate work at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and at the American University of Beirut
American University of Beirut
The American University of Beirut is a private, independent university in Beirut, Lebanon. It was founded as the Syrian Protestant College by American missionaries in 1866...
.
Books
- San Juan de la CruzJohn of the CrossJohn of the Cross , born Juan de Yepes Álvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest, born at Fontiveros, Old Castile....
y el Islam. Estudio sobre la filiaciones semíticas de su literatura mística (México: Colegio de México 1985), second edition (Madrid: Hiperión 1990). - Huellas del Islam en la literatura españolaSpanish literatureSpanish literature generally refers to literature written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the state of Spain...
. De Juan RuizJuan RuizJuan Ruiz , known as the Archpriest of Hita , was a medieval Spanish poet. He is best known for his ribald, earthy poem, Libro de buen amor .-Origins:...
a Juan GoytisoloJuan GoytisoloJuan Goytisolo is a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. He currently lives in a voluntary self-exile in Marrakech.-Background:Juan Goytisolo was born to an aristocratic family...
(Madrid: Hiperión 1985);- Translated by Andrew HurleyAndrew Hurley (academic)Andrew Hurley is primarily known as an English translator of Spanish literature, having translated a variety of authors, most notably the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges....
as: Islam in Spanish Literature. From the Middle Ages to the Present (Leiden: E.J.Brill 1992).
- Translated by Andrew Hurley
- Un Kama SutraKama SutraThe Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vātsyāyana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses...
español (Madrid 1992). - Asedios a lo Indecible - San Juan de la Cruz canta al éxtasisReligious ecstasyReligious ecstasy is an altered state of consciousness characterized by greatly reduced external awareness and expanded interior mental and spiritual awareness which is frequently accompanied by visions and emotional/intuitive euphoria...
transformante (Madrid: Editorial Trotta 1998). - The Sufi trobar clus and Spanish mysticism A shared symbolism (Lahore: Iqbal Academy Pakistan 2000), translated by Andrew HurleyAndrew Hurley (academic)Andrew Hurley is primarily known as an English translator of Spanish literature, having translated a variety of authors, most notably the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges....
; prior publication: Part II & Part III in Iqbal Review (April & October 1998); {trobar clusTrobar clusTrobar clus , or closed form, was a complex and obscure style of poetry used by troubadours for their more discerning audiences, and it was only truly appreciated by an elite few. It was developed extensively by Marcabru, but by 1200 its inaccessibility led to its disappearance...
}. - El Viejo maravilloso de Buluqiya a los confines del universo (Madrid: Trotta 2004), narrative.
- A zaga de tu huella: La ensenanza de las lenguas semíticasSemitic languagesThe Semitic languages are a group of related languages whose living representatives are spoken by more than 270 million people across much of the Middle East, North Africa and the Horn of Africa...
en SalamancaSalamancaSalamanca is a city in western Spain, in the community of Castile and León. Because it is known for its beautiful buildings and urban environment, the Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988. It is the most important university city in Spain and is known for its contributions to...
en tiempos de San Juan de la Cruz (Madrid: Trotta 2006).
Other Books:
- Collection: Mélanges, études réunies et préfacées par Luce López-Baralt (Tunis: Zaghouan 2001), edited by Abdeljelil Temimi.
- Collection/Collaboration: Luce López-Baralt, Mercedes López-Baralt, & William Mejias Lopez (editor), Moradas de la Paloma. Homenaje a Luce y Mercedes López Baralt (Universidad de Puerto Rico 1995), 2 volumes, 1890 pages.
- Collaboration: Luce López-Baralt & Lorenzo Piera Delgado, El sol a medianoche. La experiencia mística. Tradición y actualidad (Madrid: Trotta 1995); a comparative study universal in scope.
- Translation: Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Nuri de Bagdad, Moradas de los corazones [Maqama al-qulub] (Madrid 1999); i.e., Stations of the Heart, said to have been an [indirect] source of the mystical symbolism of seven concentric castles employed by St. Teresa of Avila; also see López-Baralt, Islam in Spanish Literature (1985, 1992) at 107-115, esp. 110.
- Editors (with Eulogio Pacho): San Juan de la CruzJohn of the CrossJohn of the Cross , born Juan de Yepes Álvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest, born at Fontiveros, Old Castile....
, Obra completa (Madrid: Alianza 1994), 2 volumes.
Articles
- "Introduction" to: Seyyed Hossein NasrSeyyed Hossein NasrSeyyed Hossein Nasr is an Iranian University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, and a prominent Islamic philosopher...
, The Pilgrimage of Life and the Wisdom of Rumi (2007). - "Los Moriscos y el Siglo de Oro", republished: Historia de Al-Andalus, Boletín 65 (2007); {MoriscoMoriscoMoriscos or Mouriscos , meaning "Moorish", were the converted Christian inhabitants of Spain and Portugal of Muslim heritage. Over time the term was used in a pejorative sense applied to those nominal Catholics who were suspected of secretly practicing Islam.-Demographics:By the beginning of the...
and Siglo de Oro}. - "El cálamo supremo (Al-qalam al-a'la) de Cide Hamete Benengeli" republished: Historia de Al-Andalus, Boletín 58 (2006);
- Translated by M. McCabe as: "The Supreme Pen (Al-Qalam Al-A'la) of Cide Hamete Benengeli in Don Quixote" Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30: 508-518 (2000).
- "Saint John of the CrossJohn of the CrossJohn of the Cross , born Juan de Yepes Álvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest, born at Fontiveros, Old Castile....
and Ibn 'Arabi: The Heart or Qalb as the Translucid and Ever-Changing Mirror of God" in Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society, 28: 57-90 (Oxford 2000). - "BorgesJorge Luis BorgesJorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...
o la mística del silencio: Lo que había al otro lado del ZahirThe ZahirThe Zahir is a short story by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. It is one of the stories in the book The Aleph and Other Stories, first published in 1949, and revised by the author in 1974....
" in Jorge Luis Borges. Pensamiento y saber en el siglo XX, edited by A. de Toro and F. de Toro (1999), at 29-70. - "Cuando España se llamaba SefaradSephardi JewsSephardi Jews is a general term referring to the descendants of the Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula before their expulsion in the Spanish Inquisition. It can also refer to those who use a Sephardic style of liturgy or would otherwise define themselves in terms of the Jewish customs and...
" in La Torre, 7: 503-527 (1993). - "Estudio introductorio" to: Miguel Asín Palacios, SadiliesShadhiliThe Shadhili Tariqa is a Sufi order of Sunni Islam founded by Abul Hasan Ali ash-Shadhili. Followers of the Shadhiliya are known as Shadhilis....
y AlumbradosAlumbradosThe Alumbrados was a term used to loosely describe practitioners of a mystical form of Christianity in Spain during the 15th-16th centuries. Some alumbrados were only mildly heterodox, but others held views that were clearly heretical...
(Madrid: Hiperión 1990) at ix-lxvii. - "Historia de un hombre que prefirió la muerte al adulterio" in Revista de estudios hispánicos, v.12 (1985).
- "Santa Teresa y el Islam: Los símbolos del vino del éxtasis, la apretura y la anchura, el jardín del alma, el árbol místico, el gusano de seda, los siete castillos concéntricos" in Ephemerides Carmeliticae XXXIII: 629-678 (1981–82).
- "Simbología mística musulmana en San Juan de la Cruz y en Santa Teresa" in Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica XXX: 21-91 (1981).
- "Los lenguajes infinitos de San Juan de la Cruz e Ibn 'Arabi de Murcia" in Actas del VI Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas (Toronto 1980) at 173-177.
- "Huellas del Islam en San Juan de la Cruz: en torno a la 'Llama de amor viva' y la espiritualidad musulmana išraquí" in Vuelta 45: 5-11 (August 1980).
- "Anonimia y posible filiación espiritual musulmana del soneto 'No me mueve mi Dios, para quererte'" in Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica XXIV: 243-266 (1975).
- Collaboration: Luce López-Baralt & Marta Elena Venier, "Literatura hispano-semítica comparada" in Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica XXX (1981).
See also
- Miguel Asín Palacios
- St. John of the Cross
- Muhyiddin Ibn 'ArabiIbn ArabiIbn ʿArabī was an Andalusian Moorish Sufi mystic and philosopher. His full name was Abū 'Abdillāh Muḥammad ibn 'Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn `Arabī .-Biography:...
- St. Teresa of Avila
- Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis BorgesJorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...