Jewish Literary Eros: Between Poetry and Prose in the Medieval Mediterranean

In Jewish Literary Eros, Isabelle Levy explores the originality and complexity of medieval Jewish writings. Examining medieval...
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Jewish Literary Eros: Between Poetry and Prose in the Medieval Mediterranean by Levy, Isabelle

Jewish Literary Eros: Between Poetry and Prose in the Medieval Mediterranean

€100,18

Jewish Literary Eros: Between Poetry and Prose in the Medieval Mediterranean

€100,18
Author: Isabelle Levy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Isabelle Levy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 06/07/2022
Pages: 210
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780253060150

About the Author

Isabelle Levy is MA Program Director and Lecturer at the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University. She was previously a Fulbright fellow in Spain. She researches medieval Jewish literature of the medieval Mediterranean with respect to Arabic and Romance counterparts.


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