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Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • well worth reading
  • Maria Rosa Menocal is America's foremost cultural critic
 Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric
María Rosa Menocal , and María Rosa Menocal
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Book 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 Shards of Love, as María Rosa Menocal confronts the difficulty of writing their history.
It 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 Layla and Majnun, to the uncanny ties between Jim Morrison and Petrarch, Shards of Love 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.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars well worth reading.......2004-01-08

An exciting account of the multi-lingual medieval cultural stew that gave rise to great lyric poetry. The book is rather repetitive and does not deal much with the poetry itself, but it contains powerful critiques of the nationalist and orthodox tendencies of philology and renaissance studies and a very suggestive linking of medieval lyric poetry to modern rock music.

5 out of 5 stars Maria Rosa Menocal is America's foremost cultural critic.......1997-07-07

Anyone who thinks medieval literary criticism is dry is in for a pleasant shock when they pick up Maria Rosa Menocal's latest book. You may not agree with her, but she will change your world view nonetheless.

Michael Kucher
Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric. (book reviews): An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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    		Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric. (book reviews): An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
    Julie Scott Meisami
    Manufacturer: American Oriental Society
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Digital
    ASIN: B00096P53M
    Release Date: 2005-07-28

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    This digital document is an article from The Journal of the American Oriental Society, published by American Oriental Society on April 1, 1996. The length of the article is 2264 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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    Title: Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric. (book reviews)
    Author: Julie Scott Meisami
    Publication: The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
    Date: April 1, 1996
    Publisher: American Oriental Society
    Volume: v116 Issue: n2 Page: p313(4)

    Article Type: Book Review

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