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1 Online-Ressource (xix, 370 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781487553128
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9781487547295
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9781487547288
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Examining the emergence of the versified love story as a genre of New Persian literature in the early eleventh century, Love at a Crux situates this literary movement within the broader global history of romance.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Reader's Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue | In Which Love Has Many a Tale -- A Heterogeneous Text -- Re-cognizing Romance -- The Medieval Globe -- On Mythos and Ethos -- Love at a Crux -- 1 Phantasy | The Rise of Romance -- An Act of Creation -- Legends and Legerdemain -- Heroic Lives and Amorous Tales -- By Way of Symbol -- Why Read Romance? -- Like Kingly Pearls -- 2 Ethics | An Affair of Conscience -- The Ethos of Romantic Love -- Conflicting Signals and False Starts -- Vis Unveiled -- From Māh to Marv: A Tale of Three Seductions -- A New Covenant -- 3 Politics | The Prisoner of His Skin -- "All Kings Were His Slaves" -- Beholding Mehr -- The Sacred Bond -- The Iron Band -- Un/knowing the Truth -- Smashing the Mirror -- "The World Is a Dream" -- 4 Affect | The Limits of Lyric -- Lyrics, Episodes, and Adventure-Time -- Episode 1: Mode Switching -- Episode 2: Lyrical Reality -- Episode 3: The Mirror of the Self -- Episode 4: A Crisis of Authority -- Breakdown and Break-up -- The Final Word -- 5 History | The Death of Romantic Love -- Transcribing the Soul -- Love-Death (Liebestod) -- False Death (Scheintod) -- Endings and Beginnings -- Epilogue | In Which Many a Tale Has Love -- Appendix A: Summary of Vis & -- Rāmin -- Appendix B: Rāmin's Songs -- Appendix C: Concordance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Anmerkung:
Literaturverzeichnis Seite [319]-359
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4875-4727-1
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
Schlagwort(e):
Gurgānī, Faḫr-ad-Dīn ca. 11. Jh. Wīs u Ramīn
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Persisch
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Literatur
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Liebesgeschichte
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Interkulturalität
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.3138/9781487553128
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