{"product_id":"shards-of-love-mara-rosa-menocal-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 Mar? 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 Mar? Rosa Menocal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822314193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822314196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/22\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\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","brand":"Mar? Rosa Menocal","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44302431944959,"sku":"9780822314196","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2bb3232f-9137-4b5e-adc2-627ede8bd9eb.jpg?v=1695161552","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shards-of-love-mara-rosa-menocal-9780822314196","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}