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Shards of Love - Exile and the Origins of the Lyric (Paperback)
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Shards of Love - Exile and the Origins of the Lyric (Paperback)
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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 Maria 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.
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