Love at a Crux : : The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages.
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.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press,, 2023. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (391 pages) |
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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 &
- Rāmin
- Appendix B: Rāmin's Songs
- Appendix C: Concordance
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.