{"product_id":"love-at-a-crux-the-new-persian-romance-in-a-global-middle-ages-hardback-9781487547271","title":"Love at a Crux; The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages (Hardback) 9781487547271","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLove at a Crux\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCameron Cross (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487547271\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 December 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e390 pages, 3 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e24.9 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.67 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove at a Crux\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eVis \u0026amp; Rāmin\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBringing together traditions that are often sundered by modern disciplinary boundaries, \u003ci\u003eLove at a Crux\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eReader\u0026amp;#x2019;s Notes\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: In Which Love Has Many a Tale\u003cbr\u003eA Heterogeneous Text\u003cbr\u003eRe-congnizing Romance\u003cbr\u003eThe Medieval Globe\u003cbr\u003eMythos and Ethos\u003cbr\u003eLove at a Crux\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Phantasy: The Rise of Romance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Act of Creation \u003cbr\u003eLegends and Legerdemain\u003cbr\u003eHeroic Lives and Amorous Tales\u003cbr\u003eBy Way of Symbol\u003cbr\u003eWhy Read Romance?\u003cbr\u003eLike Kingly Pearls\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Ethics: An Affair of Conscience\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ethos of Romantic Love\u003cbr\u003eConflicting Signals and False Starts\u003cbr\u003eVis Unveiled\u003cbr\u003eFrom Media to Marv: A Tale of Three Seductions\u003cbr\u003eA New Covenant\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Authority: The Prisoner of His Skin\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"All Kings Were His Slaves\"\u003cbr\u003eBeholding\u003cem\u003e Mehr\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sacred Bond\u003cbr\u003eThe Iron Band\u003cbr\u003eUn\/knowing the Truth\u003cbr\u003eSmashing the Mirror\u003cbr\u003e\"The World is a Dream\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Affect: The Limits of Lyric\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLyrics, Episodes, and Adventure-Time\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 1 Mode-Switching\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 2 Lyrical Reality\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 3The Mirror of the Self\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 4 A Crisis of Authority\u003cbr\u003eBreakdown and Breakup\u003cbr\u003eThe Final Word\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. History: The Death of Romantic Love \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranscribing the Soul\u003cbr\u003eLove-Death (\u003cem\u003eLiebestod\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003cbr\u003eFalse Death (\u003cem\u003eScheintod\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003cbr\u003eEndings and Beginnings\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendices\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix A: A Summary of \u003cem\u003eVis \u0026amp; Rāmin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExordium\u003cbr\u003eFrom Media to Marv\u003cbr\u003eA King\u0026amp;#x2019;s Collapse\u003cbr\u003eVis and Rāmin Separate\u003cbr\u003eDeath and Deliverance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix B: Rāmin\u0026amp;#x2019;s Songs\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRāmin Falls in Love\u003cbr\u003eRāmin Woos Vis\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 1: The Ordeal\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 2: The Bed-Trick\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 3: The Devil\u0026amp;#x2019;s Grotto\u003cbr\u003eEpisode 4: The Garden\u003cbr\u003eThe Breakup\u003cbr\u003eThe Coup\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix C: Concordance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739854074136,"sku":"9781487547271","price":50.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/love-at-a-crux-the-new-persian-romance-in-a-global-middle-ages-hardback-9781487547271","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}