The Poetics of Love in Prosimetra across the Medieval Mediterranean
Contributors: Levy, Isabelle C.; Girón-Negrón, Luis M.; Ziolkowski, Jan M.; Gaylord, Mary M.; Scheindlin, Raymond P.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Description: Written as prose began to garner attention in literary cultures that had long privileged poetic composition, prosimetra offer a unique perspective on what authors in eleventh-century al-Andalus and thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Spain and Italy singled out as the special capabilities of poetry. Further, as the only shared theme across mixed-form texts in Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish, love acts as a go-between across these varied literary traditions.
Notes: Keywords: Libro de buen amor, Medieval Mediterranean, Prosimetrum, Sefer ha-meshalim, Tawq al-hamama, Vita Nuova.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2014