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....
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Harvard University
2014
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| Online Access: | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11359 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274117 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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