Shards of love : exile and the origins of the lyric / Maria Rosa Menocal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menocal, Maria Rosa.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Medieval--History and criticism.

Poetry, Medieval.

Love poetry--History and criticism.

Love poetry.

Exile (Punishment) in literature.

Exiles in literature.

Romance philology.

Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Shards of Love, as Ma

Contents:

I THE HORSE LATITUDES

II SCANDAL

1. Love and Mercy

2. The Inventions of Philology

3. Chasing the Wind

III DESIRE

IV READINGS AND SOURCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-285) and index.

ISBN:

9786612904288

9781282904286

1282904280

9780822381853

0822381850

OCLC:

850214689