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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cullhed, Anders, 1951- (Editor ), Franzén, Carin (Editor ), Hallengren, Anders, 1950- (Editor ), Malm, Mats (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2013.
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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.