Love at a Crux: The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages
dc.contributor.author | Cross, Cameron | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-20T02:30:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-02-20T02:30:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-12 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781487553128 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/192461 | en |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Toronto Press | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Criticism, interpretation, etc; Fakhr al-Dīn Gurgānī, active 1048; Love in literature; Persian literature; Persian literature 747-1500 History and criticism; Romances, Persian; Romances, Persian History and criticism; Vīs va Rāmīn (Fakhr al-Dīn Gurgānī); | en_US |
dc.title | Love at a Crux: The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages | en_US |
dc.type | Book | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Middle East Studies | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.identifier.oclc | 1391138220 | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/192461/1/Cross2023_LoveAtACrux_9781487553128.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/22367 | |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-7055-2279 | en_US |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of Cross2023_LoveAtACrux_9781487553128.pdf : Open Access monograph | |
dc.description.depositor | SELF | en_US |
dc.identifier.name-orcid | Cross, Cameron; 0000-0002-7055-2279 | en_US |
dc.working.doi | 10.7302/22367 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Middle East Studies, Department of |
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