MLA Commons | Tyler Fisher | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/tyfisher/activity/ Activity feed for Tyler Fisher. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:01:20 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a4c36d036bc28e9426adcdf76c5509ab Tyler Fisher's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895970/ Sun, 11 Aug 2024 12:27:37 -0400 0 a3f7c1e11182496e62105d967b8f6eea Tyler Fisher deposited Four Ghazals by Nali https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1835233/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 16:46:16 -0500 This is an English translation of four ghazals by Nalî (c. 1800 – c. 1856).
Mallah Khidir, known by his pen name Nalî, was the most important Kurdish poet of the nineteenth century. He founded the Sorani School of Kurdish poetry, a literary movement which remains influential in the Sorani dialect of Kurdish today. Most of Nali’s early poetr…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c232c587f0b75cdfbf9d69c9ab072af Tyler Fisher deposited Del Nacimiento, Romance (Ballad on the Nativity) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829009/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 21:49:27 -0500 This parallel English translation of “Del Nacimiento, romance” by San Juan de la Cruz (Saint John of the Cross) employs the traditional English ballad meter to convey the literary and folkloric effects of San Juan’s original.

]]> 0 6d6c88e35e8085087c6c6fb93c6b9692 Tyler Fisher deposited La vaca y el carabao: Una leyenda filipina https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1759567/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 01:19:48 -0500 This is a traditional Philippine folktale, translated from Hiligaynon.

]]> 0 5594e4f4cc9f960e092a16e20debfd6e Tyler Fisher deposited Palliative Prophecy: Yezidi Perspectives on Their Suffering under Islamic State and on Their Future https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1758696/ Tue, 16 Nov 2021 19:23:37 -0500 This essay endeavours to document and analyze Yezidis’ perspectives on their community’s recent suffering and on their community’s future, in their own terms. It does so by examining, specifically, Yezidi oral prophecies concerning the rise of Islamic State (ISIS) and the genocidal campaigns of 2014. The study is based on in-depth personal inter…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc290ea7f4944958c3805163b195e47a Tyler Fisher deposited A Spanish Ring in the Yezidi Spring https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1757829/ Sat, 06 Nov 2021 23:12:58 -0400 This article describes and discusses a ring with a Spanish inscription, which was excavated in Lalish in December 2018.

]]> 0 bcf65e497e7f30242ba7370dee306e50 Tyler Fisher deposited Review of Fredo Arias de la Canal's Sonetos oral-traumáticos, masoquistas, tanáticos y eróticos https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749832/ Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:16:35 -0400 This review evaluates Fredo Arias de la Canal’s anthology of early modern Spanish sonnets.

]]> 0 753ecc904d793ac0f5abe29595008ebb Tyler Fisher deposited Review of Ryan Prendergast's Reading, Writing, and Errant Subjects in Inquisitorial Spain https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749828/ Mon, 23 Aug 2021 16:35:57 -0400 This review assesses Prendergast’s study of the Spanish Inquisition’s impact on early modern Spanish literature.

]]> 0 9104985455ac0bbf1959e1472df49586 Tyler Fisher deposited El herrero del refranero https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749719/ Sat, 21 Aug 2021 00:23:55 -0400 This article offers a sampling of 11 traditional Spanish proverbs and aphorisms about blacksmithing in English translation.

]]> 0 7e91f7639d6514ee856d50848cb4a71d Tyler Fisher deposited Like a Simple Moth I Turn Again https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749718/ Sat, 21 Aug 2021 00:16:12 -0400 This is an English translation of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza’s sonnet, “Cual simple mariposa vuelvo al fuego.”

]]> 0 a3773446a192f15683474a041882d9b5 Tyler Fisher deposited Review of Krzysztof Sliwa's Cartas, documentos y escrituras del Dr. Frey Lope Félix de Vega Carpio (1562-1635) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749386/ Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:45:36 -0400 This review critiques Sliwa’s collection of contemporaneous ephemera by and about Lope de Vega.

]]> 0 cacf6c5bc4de51c155eb22213c565f1f Tyler Fisher deposited Review of Steven Wagschal's The Literature of Jealousy in the Age of Cervantes https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749299/ Sun, 15 Aug 2021 01:49:41 -0400 This review critiques Wagschal’s study of jealousy in early modern Spanish literature.

]]> 0 32f720eb43b72a6648ef942a6b51d856 Tyler Fisher deposited Criar cuervos https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749223/ Fri, 13 Aug 2021 21:18:42 -0400 This microcuento retells and extends a legend about Hanno the Great of Carthage.

]]> 0 87db4a120a1423033770be87cccadcee Tyler Fisher deposited Fabulita https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749222/ Fri, 13 Aug 2021 21:03:31 -0400 This microcuento imitates the manner of the traditional fable or etiological tale.

]]> 0 211b2dac29554d542746c02c363a379d Tyler Fisher deposited Review of James Raven's The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade, 1450-1850 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749024/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 21:44:35 -0400 This review assesses James Raven’s masterful overview of commercial evolutions in the English publishing trade over four hundred years, from the dawn of moveable type in the mid fifteenth century to the changes in production and marketing techniques of the nineteenth century.

]]> 0 a07e3a7e7269331e200e3fcb434b614a Tyler Fisher deposited STEM and Language Arts: Two Sides of the Same Coin? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749020/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 20:17:25 -0400 This interview makes the case for unity between STEM and language arts, and offers advice on what students can do to make the most out of whichever field they choose.

]]> 0 8203a5c0c79ebf25ead97e7b339246ce Tyler Fisher deposited Yezidi Baptism and Rebaptism: Resilience, Reintegration, and Religious Adaptation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1749018/ Wed, 11 Aug 2021 19:50:29 -0400 The Yezidis have conserved and perpetuated their religion largely via a complex body of customs and oral tradition, rather than in a fixed, canonical text. Variation in ceremonies and doctrine is likely, if not inevitable. Their baptismal rite, through innovation and the discarding of certain features, has evolved within the community’s living m…[Read more]

]]> 0 bfb268775ec2ad23b44d211c21f022cc Tyler Fisher deposited En un barrio de las afueras de Babel https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748534/ Thu, 05 Aug 2021 19:21:24 -0400 This microcuento imagines an alternative to the Tower of Babel — and comments on music’s ability to transcend the limits of language.

]]> 0 5d21295b1fb3548f5c751e8177288133 Tyler Fisher deposited Elegy for Mrs. Michaelson https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748528/ Thu, 05 Aug 2021 18:06:49 -0400 This poem reimagines a fragment of Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar” to consider the implications of modern medicine’s life-prolonging treatments.

]]> 0 5f101dde77c11a3a2c8440407f24cb80 Tyler Fisher deposited La metaficción en la microficción de José María Merino https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748525/ Thu, 05 Aug 2021 17:09:08 -0400 This chapter explores the innovative analogies by which José María Merino represents his microfiction.

]]> 0 3f0cfee44aeb0d5ca96ef29f8502d251 Tyler Fisher deposited Beyond Referendum: How Should an Independent Kurdistan Be Different? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748521/ Thu, 05 Aug 2021 16:14:00 -0400 This essay, written by invitation of The Globe Post on the occasion of the Kurdish referendum on independence in 2017, envisions a way forward for a more unified Kurdistan: a form of ethnic federalism in order to avoid balkanization.

]]> 0 d6acfa0a554d684c616145c963a16064 Tyler Fisher deposited Imagining Lope's Lyric Poetry in the 'Soneto primero' of the Rimas https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748515/ Thu, 05 Aug 2021 14:49:20 -0400 This chapter analyzes Lope de Vega’s metaphors for texts and textual production in the opening sonnet of his Rimas.

]]> 0 b15a35aa5741997f9ad0063cd0581770 Tyler Fisher deposited Skylight & The Heart Is a Moth Aflame https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748434/ Wed, 04 Aug 2021 17:39:28 -0400 The poems of Malaye Jaziri (c. 1570-1640 CE) represent the fundamental genesis of Kurdish poetry, because he was the first to deploy Classical Perso-Arabic forms in Kurdish verse. He adopted and adapted the ruba‘i and ghazal, most notably, as forms for poetry in the Kurdish language, thereby establishing a written medium for the Kurdish poetic t…[Read more]

]]> 0 e3c5735830b7013a92ffafe88b55c74c Tyler Fisher deposited El gen del genio https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748423/ Wed, 04 Aug 2021 16:07:13 -0400 This microcuento, with a corresponding English translation, playfully engages the question of whether “genius” is more attributable to genetics or hard work.

]]> 0 2ec6d44d7c34d6947728ee43a538ad37 Tyler Fisher deposited Review of José María Merino's El libro de las horas contadas https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748138/ Mon, 02 Aug 2021 21:20:10 -0400 This review assesses José María Merino’s most innovative contribution to Spanish microfiction.

]]> 0 abbbd0469d6f181f8785dcd53665a133 Tyler Fisher deposited Agressive Suitcases & Belated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748024/ Sun, 01 Aug 2021 21:25:41 -0400 A brief review of José María Merino’s El libro de las horas contadas (2011) serves as an introduction to these translations of his microcuentos, “Maletas agresivas” and “Con retraso.”

]]> 0 55966e7f5ee9ad8e628f5eface3176b1 Tyler Fisher deposited A Visit to Eden after the Fall: Yazidis Resume Their Pilgrimage Festival at Lalish https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1747988/ Sat, 31 Jul 2021 14:45:58 -0400 The Yazidis of Iraqi Kurdistan resume their Éida Hejya (Pilgrimage Festival) at Lalish in September 2015.

]]> 0 456965fe9cd54ca8896a3698bc0beef2 Tyler Fisher deposited Sloughing the Jenny https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1747350/ Fri, 23 Jul 2021 13:46:44 -0400 This gently allegorical poem hints at a theodicy on the basis of an Appalachian folk tradition, the “Flying Jenny” (merry-go-round).

]]> 0 0e23a23285897cc6005f4ceb21187794 Tyler Fisher deposited Sleaking https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1746121/ Sat, 17 Jul 2021 20:11:56 -0400 This poem is a bleak, sleek atlas of a moonlit rendezvous.

]]> 0 0152bc521e7dfa4316cab8bd7c2649b5 Tyler Fisher deposited The Blacksmith and His Dog https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1746105/ Sat, 17 Jul 2021 17:06:00 -0400 Like La Fontaine, Félix María Samaniego (1745-1801) freely adapted fables from Aesop and Phaedrus in vernacular verse. This is an English translation of Samaniego’s “El herrero y el perro.”

]]> 0 59653a27f63d2be634d9f16dfd0ccd71 Tyler Fisher deposited On Constructs and Insights: Revisiting Robert Pring-Mill's 'Interaction View' of Conceits https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1746101/ Sat, 17 Jul 2021 15:13:50 -0400 This article tests several of Robert Pring-Mill’s schematic clarifications of “the nature and functioning of the concepto” against examples from Golden-Age
devotional poetry and doctrinal treatises. In particular, it explores ways in which the conceptista conflation of figures for the Incarnation and figures for the poet’s craft can clarify our…[Read more]

]]> 0 c96d5c810316c1e8ff37c98f05c3cf1e Tyler Fisher deposited Haunted Histories and Ambiguous Burial Grounds in Iraqi Kurdistan https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1746100/ Sat, 17 Jul 2021 14:20:01 -0400 As part of a wider research project that documents site-specific oral history associated with caves and cemeteries among the rapidly changing populations of Iraqi Kurdistan, this study analyses oral histories and traditions concerning one particular graveyard. Reputed to be the burial site of seventh century Muslim conquerors, this graveyard is…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f5a0dea983b593565870b1a8a36ba8d Tyler Fisher deposited The Search for Cervantes’s Bones: Dead Men Pen No Tales https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745935/ Fri, 16 Jul 2021 01:20:25 -0400 This essay appeared in The Conversation, 9 May 2014, titled “Probing Cervantes’s pages offers more than his bones
ever will.”

]]> 0 d9d487b1123d183a593da7f341056036 Tyler Fisher deposited Nautical Votive Offerings and Imaginative Speculation in Góngora's Soledad primera https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745928/ Thu, 15 Jul 2021 23:12:20 -0400 With a particular focus on lines 29–33 and 477–80, this article analyses the motif of the ex-voto or votive offering in Góngora’s Soledad primera. In relation to Golden-Age ex-votos more generally, both in popular practice and in literary convention, it identifies three characteristics that are central to Góngora’s development of the motif. These…[Read more]

]]> 0 eaf101654b4bf223cb4f112e72514271 Tyler Fisher's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745871/ Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:01:27 -0400 0 56592a62db69731bea047e486461a0cb Tyler Fisher deposited New York 1987 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745870/ Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:57:50 -0400 This translation of of Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso’s “Nueva York 1987” was commissioned for Belkis Ramirez’s exhibition, In Memoriam: Commemorative Works by Contemporary Artists, University of Saint Joseph Art Museum, Connecticut, January 2019.

]]> 0 6fce86b388ca2cf3ef1ddbf51bf08795 Tyler Fisher deposited Nadie https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745858/ Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:43:46 -0400 Using the diction and format of a newspaper story, this Spanish microrrelato alludes to recognizable elements of Homer’s Odyssey in order to comment on the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean.

]]> 0 394390f2e0f3935f58f58a4117fb9526 Tyler Fisher's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745732/ Wed, 14 Jul 2021 21:26:27 -0400 0 5b6f04085cebe7baee39aba149d1b1e8 Tyler Fisher deposited The Supernatural in Spanish Ballads https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745534/ Tue, 13 Jul 2021 02:21:35 -0400 This essay challenges the critical commonplace that Spain’s traditional ballads lack supernatural content.

]]> 0 632561318cbf9b60427a694d5c0401df Tyler Fisher deposited Giants on Parade, Tyrants Aflame in Quevedo's Sonnet, "Desengaño de la exterior apariencia" https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745511/ Mon, 12 Jul 2021 20:33:38 -0400 This chapter offers a close reading of Francisco de Quevedo’s sonnet which begins “¿Miras este gigante corpulento | que con soberbia y gravedad camina?,” in the light of its cultural contexts.

]]> 0 5051ccfcbab3be81d7e1216c71bfacf5 Tyler Fisher deposited The Female Colossus in the New World: Innovations on a Classical Motif in José Martí’s Modernismo https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745508/ Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:56:07 -0400 This study considers how European modernism’s preoccupation with nationhood is prefigured in Latin American modernismo. By examining José Martí’s use of the colossus image, this chapter places classical reception at the center of how we define the limits of modernism’s origins.

]]> 0 33a8a5385a059f773a31829a09c4b8d0 Tyler Fisher deposited Review of Lindsay G. Kerr's Luis de Góngora and Lope de Vega: Masters of Parody https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745453/ Mon, 12 Jul 2021 17:30:39 -0400 Book review of Luis de Góngora and Lope de Vega: Masters of Parody, by Lindsay G. Kerr. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, vol. 96, no. 2, 2019, pp. 339-41.

]]> 0 406ac48cfe04b575af34044e8e00d6bb Tyler Fisher deposited Lizard in the Loam https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1745452/ Mon, 12 Jul 2021 16:58:53 -0400 This narrative poem draws on Hebrew poetry to express a youth’s encounter with a father’s long-buried memory.

]]> 0 1cd5a6f88ddf7b437d79b9bb2dd17b7c Tyler Fisher deposited The Prototype and Paradox of Mentorship https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744857/ Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:32:43 -0400 This essay on mentoring undergraduates draws five paradoxes from the etymology of “mentor.”

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