Jewish literary eros : between poetry and prose in the medieval Mediterranean / Isabelle Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, Isabelle, 1983- author.

Series:

Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

European literature.

Jewish literature--Mediterranean Region--History and criticism.

Jewish literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Love in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Relative Merits of Poetry and Prose

Chapter 2. The Medieval Jewish Prosimetric Poet-Lover: An Anxious Student of Ethics

Chapter 3. Love between Poetry and Prose: Concrete Metaphors

Chapter 4. The Death of Courtly Love and the Poetry of Prose: Immanuel of Rome in Medieval Italy

Conclusion: A Prosimetric Inheritance

Appendix A: Immanuel's Bisbidis

Appendix B: Timeline

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Levy, Isabelle Jewish Literary Eros

ISBN:

9780253060167

0253060168

9780253060174

0253060176

OCLC:

1310467967