Love at a crux : the new Persian romance in a global Middle Ages /
"Love at a Crux presents the emergence of versified love stories in the New Persian language as a crucial event in the history of romance. Using the tale of Vis & Rāmin (w. 1054) as its focal point, the book explores how Persian court poets in the eleventh century reconfigured "myths&q...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto ; Buffalo ; London :
University of Toronto Press,
2023.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Love at a Crux presents the emergence of versified love stories in the New Persian language as a crucial event in the history of romance. Using the tale of Vis & Rāmin (w. 1054) as its focal point, the book explores how Persian court poets in the eleventh century reconfigured "myths" and "fables" from the distant past in ways that transformed the love story from a form of evening entertainment to a method of ethical, political, and affective self-inquiry. This transformation both anticipates and helps to explain the efflorescence of romance in many medieval cultures across the western flank of Afro-Eurasia. Bringing together traditions that are often sundered by modern disciplinary boundaries, Love at a Crux unearths the interconnections between New Persian and comparable traditions in ancient and medieval Greek, Arabic, Georgian, Old French, and Middle High German, offering scholars in classics, medieval studies, Middle Eastern literatures, and premodern world literature a case study in literary history as connected history."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. Issued also in print format. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781487553128 1487553129 9781487547295 1487547293 9781487547288 1487547285 |