Shards of Love - Exile and the Origins of the Lyric

"One of the multiple perspectives that Professor Menocal's book offers to the reader is to understand it as a genealogy of the discipline 'Romance Philosophy'. . . . Romance philology, for Menocal, is a late concretization of a century-long process of nostaglia: a nostalgia for a truly 'multicultural' world which constituted the 'Middle Ages' on the Iberian penisula and which was definitely destroyed, from 1492 on, by the Inquisition and the conquest of America as double departure towards European modernity. Menocal's genealogy of this nostalgia reveals an almost uncanny closeness between lyrical poetry and erudite discourses as the basis for academic medievalism."--Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University

List of contents

Prelude ix

1. The Horse Latitudes 1

II. Scandal 55

1. Love and Mercy 57

2. The Inventions of Philology 91

3. Chasing the Wind 142

III. Desire 185

IV. Readings and Sources 189

Works Cited 271

Index 287

About the author

María Rosa Menocal, R. Selden Rose Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, is the author of The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History and Dante's Cult of Truth, also published by Duke University Press.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Rosamenocal, Mar?a Rosa Menocal, Maria Rosa Menocal, María Rosa Menocal
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.12.1993
• EAN: 9780822314059
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1405-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Weight: 635 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies