Pangs of love and longing : configurations of desire in premodern literature /
The complex relationship between psychic structures, social norms, and aesthetic representations is a challenge for every analysis of the historical manifestations of human desire. The collection of essays in "Pangs of Love and Longing" sets out to provide a deeper understanding of this re...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Anders Cullhed, Carin Franzén, Anders Hallengren and Mats Malm
- Conceptualizations of desire ; The configurations of ancient Greek desire / Eva-Carin Gerö
- The cauldron of concupiscence / Anders Hallengren
- The trauma of a hungry heart : Augustine, Žižek, and (pre)modern desire / Ola Sigurdson
- "A movement of the spirit never resting" : aspects of desire in Dante's "Comedy" / Anders Cullhed
- "Thorn in the flesh" : pain and poetry in Petrarch's "Secretum" / Unn Falkeid
- Discourses of desire ; The division of love and feminine desire : Christine de Pizan and Marguerite de Navarre / Carin Franzén
- Negotiations of Renaissance desire / Johanna Vernqvist
- Divisive desires in "The Two Noble Kinsmen" / Marcus Nordlund
- Linguistic desire and the moral iconography of language in early modern England / Mats Malm
- Sighs of desire : passionate breathing in Medieval and early modern literature / Krisitina Savin
- In response to charming passions : erotic readings of a Byzantine novel / Ingela Nilsson
- Figures of desire ; Desire in Hrotsvith's hagiographical legends / Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed
- The rhetoric of desire in Ovid's "Amores" 1.5 and some Medieval texts from the "Carmina Burana" to "Tirant Lo Blanc" / Ulf Malm
- Mastering desires : images of love, lust and want in fourteenth-century Vadstena / Mia Åkestam
- Petrarch on desire and virtue / Erland Sellberg
- Erotic desire, spiritual yearning, narrative drive : the "Vida" of St. Teresa of Avila / Sofie Kluge
- Sex and the self : Simon Forman, subjectivity and erotic dreams in early modern England / Per Sivefors.