Jewish Literary Eros : Between Poetry and Prose in the Medieval Mediterranean
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies
ISBN-10
025306015X
ISBN-13
9780253060150
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Imprint
Indiana University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 7th, 2022
Print length
210 Pages
Weight
464 grams
Dimensions
15.80 x 23.50 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticismJewish studies
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In Jewish Literary Eros, Isabelle Levy explores the originality and complexity of medieval Jewish writings. Examining medieval prosimetra (texts composed of alternating prose and verse), Levy demonstrates that secular love is the common theme across Arabic, Hebrew, French, and Italian texts. At the crossroads of these spheres of intellectual activity, Jews of the medieval Mediterranean composed texts that combined dominant cultures' literary stylings with biblical Hebrew and other elements from Jewish cultures. Levy explores Jewish authors' treatments of love in prosimetra and finds them creative, complex, and innovative. Jewish Literary Eros compares the mixed-form compositions by Jewish authors of the medieval Mediterranean with their Arabic and European counterparts to find the particular moments of innovation among textual practices by Jewish authors. When viewed in the comparative context of the medieval Mediterranean, the evolving relationship between the mixed form and the theme of love in secular Jewish compositions refines our understanding of the ways in which the Jewish literature of the period negotiates the hermeneutic and theological underpinnings of Islamicate and Christian literary traditions.
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