Love at a Crux : : The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages.

• Author: Cross, Cameron.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (391 pages)

Examining the emergence of the versified love story as a genre of New Persian literature in the early eleventh century, Love at a Crux situates this literary movement within the broader global history of romance.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Reader's Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue | In Which Love Has Many a Tale -- A Heterogeneous Text -- Re-cognizing Romance -- The Medieval Globe -- On Mythos and Ethos -- Love at a Crux -- 1 Phantasy | The Rise of Romance -- An Act of Creation -- Legends and Legerdemain -- Heroic Lives and Amorous Tales -- By Way of Symbol -- Why Read Romance? -- Like Kingly Pearls -- 2 Ethics | An Affair of Conscience -- The Ethos of Romantic Love -- Conflicting Signals and False Starts -- Vis Unveiled -- From Māh to Marv: A Tale of Three Seductions -- A New Covenant -- 3 Politics | The Prisoner of His Skin -- "All Kings Were His Slaves" -- Beholding Mehr -- The Sacred Bond -- The Iron Band -- Un/knowing the Truth -- Smashing the Mirror -- "The World Is a Dream" -- 4 Affect | The Limits of Lyric -- Lyrics, Episodes, and Adventure-Time -- Episode 1: Mode Switching -- Episode 2: Lyrical Reality -- Episode 3: The Mirror of the Self -- Episode 4: A Crisis of Authority -- Breakdown and Break-up -- The Final Word -- 5 History | The Death of Romantic Love -- Transcribing the Soul -- Love-Death (Liebestod) -- False Death (Scheintod) -- Endings and Beginnings -- Epilogue | In Which Many a Tale Has Love -- Appendix A: Summary of Vis &amp -- Rāmin -- Appendix B: Rāmin's Songs -- Appendix C: Concordance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.