{"product_id":"shards-of-love-exile-and-the-origins-of-the-lyric-9780822314196","title":"Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric","description":"With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and grammar that was disturbing to the Renaissance sensibility of purity and stability. In rewriting Columbus's narrative of his voyage of that year, Renaissance historians rewrote history, as was often their practice, to purge it of an offending vulgarity. The cultural fragments left behind following this exile form the core of \u003ci\u003eShards of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, as María Rosa Menocal confronts the difficulty of writing their history.\u003cbr\u003eIt is in exile that Menocal locates the founding conditions for philology--as a discipline that loves origins--and for the genre of love songs that philology reveres. She crosses the boundaries, both temporal and geographical, of 1492 to recover the \"original\" medieval culture, with its Mediterranean mix of European, Arabic, and Hebrew poetics. The result is a form of literary history more lyrical than narrative and, Menocal persuasively demonstrates, more appropriate to the Middle Ages than to the revisionary legacy of the Renaissance. In discussions ranging from Eric Clapton's adaption of Nizami's \u003ci\u003eLayla and Majnun\u003c\/i\u003e, to the uncanny ties between Jim Morrison and Petrarch, \u003ci\u003eShards of Love\u003c\/i\u003e deepens our sense of how the Middle Ages is tied to our own age as it expands the history and meaning of what we call Romance philology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13338986\"\u003eMaría Rosa Menocal\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/22\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.33h x 6.08w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822314196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822314193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT011000\"\u003eMedieval\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT014000\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaría Rosa Menocal, R. Selden Rose Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDante's Cult of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44566447259885,"sku":"9780822314196","price":52.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_6896eee8-5de6-45dd-a08f-ac799da674a7.jpg?v=1701879270","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/shards-of-love-exile-and-the-origins-of-the-lyric-9780822314196","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}