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The Poetics of Love in Prosimetra across the Medieval Mediterranean

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:harvard.edu/oai:dash.harvard.edu:1/12274117
Date January 2013
CreatorsLevy, Isabelle Charlotte
ContributorsGiron Negron, Luis Manuel
PublisherHarvard University
Source SetsHarvard University
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Rightsclosed access

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