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Pangs of love and longing

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The complex relationship between psychic structures, social norms, and aesthetic representations is a challenge for every analysis of the historical manifestations of human desire. Pangs of Love and Longing: Configurations of Desire in Premodern Literature sets out to provide a deeper understanding of this relation by an assessment of linguistic and artistic configurations of desire in European literature from Antiquity to the Early Modern period. The aim is to explore historic continuities a...

Title Pangs of love and longing : configurations of desire in premodern literature / edited by Anders Cullhed [and three others].
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Creation Date 2013
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
English
Content CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF DESIRE
THE CONFIGURATIONS OF ANCIENT GREEK DESIRE
THE CAULDRON OF CONCUPISCENCE
THE TRAUMA OF A HUNGRY HEART
"A MOVEMENT OF THE SPIRIT NEVER RESTING"
"THORN IN THE FLESH"
DISCOURSES OF DESIRE
THE DIVISION OF LOVE AND FEMININE DESIRE
NEGOTIATIONS OF RENAISSANCE DESIRE
DIVISIVE DESIRES IN THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN
LINGUISTIC DESIRE AND THE MORAL ICONOGRAPHY OF LANGUAGE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND
SIGHS OF DESIRE
IN RESPONSE TO CHARMING PASSIONS
FIGURES OF DESIRE
DESIRE IN HROTSVITH'S HAGIOGRAPHICAL LEGENDS
THE RHETORIC OF DESIRE IN OVID'S AMORES 1.5 AND SOME MEDIEVAL TEXTS FROM THE CARMINA BURANA TO TIRANT LO BLANC MASTERING DESIRES
PETRARCH ON DESIRE AND VIRTUE
EROTIC DESIRE, SPIRITUAL YEARNING, NARRATIVE DRIVE
SEX AND THE SELF
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
Extent 1 online resource (310 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2013
National Library system number 997010716150705171
MARC RECORDS
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