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Neoplatonism, the dominant philosophy of Late Antiquity, inspired not only the intellectual traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam but also their arts. Neoplatonic notions of the ascent of the soul, the nature of love and beauty, divine immanence and transcendence, and the interplay between the many and the One, have for centuries left comparable marks on the poetry of Western Asia, North Africa and Europe. This volume focuses on the Greater Mediterranean and discusses authors who wrote in Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Persian, Spanish and Turkish, from medieval times to the present day. Among them are many celebrated exponents of their respective classical traditions, including Dante, Ibn Arabi and Ibn Gabirol. Major contemporary poets writing in these languages have continued to engage with the Neoplatonic heritage assimilated by their forbears. Particular attention is therefore given also to the modern period.
The findings gathered here demonstrate that Neoplatonism is a cross-cultural phenomenon of outstanding importance which has given rise to a distinct 'Neoplatonic poetics' and remains relevant by pointing the way towards an inclusive sense of identity commensurate with a pluralist world.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: 'A Thing All Living Faces'
PART 1. From Paganism and Eastern Christianity to the Islamic World (fourth to seventeenth centuries CE)
1: DAVID HERNÁNDEZ DE LA FUENTE: Neoplatonism and Poetics in Ancient Greek and Byzantine Literature
2: STEFAN SPERL: Stages of Ascent: Neoplatonic Affinities in Classical Arabic Poetry
3: ALEXANDER KEY: What are Neoplatonic Poetics? Allegory; figure; genre
4: KAZUYO MURATA: Beauty Stings: Plotinus and Ruzbihan Baqli on Beauty
5: WALTER G. ANDREWS: Ottoman Poetry: Where the Neoplatonic Dissolves into an Emotional Script for Life
6: DIDEM HAVLIOGLU: Mihrî Hatun and Neoplatonic Discourse: Legitimation of Women's Writing in Early Modern Ottoman Poetry
7: CARL W. ERNST: Poetry and Ishraqi Illuminationism among the Esoteric Zoroastrians of Mughal India
PART II. Jewish Neoplatonism and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim and Christian Realms (eleventh to seventeenth centuries CE)
8: ADENA TANENBAUM: Andalusian Hebrew Poems on the Soul and their Afterlife
9: JOACHIM YESHAYA: Karaite Poems about the Nature of the Soul from the Muslim East, Byzantium and Eastern Europe
PART III. Christian and Jewish Neoplatonism in Italy and Spain (fourteenth to seventeenth centuries CE)
10: CRISTINA D'ANCONA: 'Nostro intelletto si profonda tanto': The Philosophical Background of Dante's Paradiso I, 1-12 and IV, 22-60
11: SUZANNE STERN-GILLET: Agathon Redivivus: Love and Incorporeal Beauty in Ficino's De Amore, Speech V
12: ABIGAIL BRUNDIN: 'A Man within a Woman, or even a God': Vittoria Colonna and Sixteenth-Century Italian Poetic Culture
13: COLIN P. THOMPSON: The Ascent of the Soul: Neoplatonic Themes in the Literature of Golden-Age Spain
14: TERENCE O'REILLY: The Christian Neoplatonism of Francisco de Aldana in the Carta para Arias Montano
15: JULIAN WEISS: A Poetics of Difference: Neoplatonism and the Discourse of Desire in the Early Modern Spanish Love Lyric 339
PART IV. Neoplatonism in Modern Poetry: Splintered but Vibrant
16: PETER ROBINSON: An Equivocal Echo: Eugenio Montale
17: CLAUDIO RODRÍGUEZ FER: Eroticism of the Infinite: Neoplatonism, Kabbalism, and Sufism in the work of José Ángel Valente
18: ROBIN OSTLE: Body and Soul in the Arabic Literature of the Americas
19: FERIAL J. GHAZOUL: Neoplatonist Echoes in Modern Arabic Poetry: The Case of Mu?ammad ?Afifi Ma?ar
20: AHMAD KARIMI-HAKKAK: Shards of Infinitude: Neoplatonist Relics in Modern Persian Poetry
21: NESLIHAN DEMIRKOL and MEHMET KALPAKLI: The New Image of the Beloved in the Old Mirror: Reflections on the Neoplatonic Tradition in Modern Turkish Poetry
22: DAVID RICKS: Neoplatonists in Modern Greek poetry
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