Pathologies Of Love In Classical Literature

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Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature

Author : Dimitrios Kanellakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110748061
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature written by Dimitrios Kanellakis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you believe in love at first sight? The Greeks and the Romans certainly did. But far from enjoying this romantic moment carefree, they saw it as a cruel experience and an infection. Then what are the symptoms of falling in love? Are there any remedies? Any form of immunity? This book explores the conception of love (erôs) as a physical, emotional, and mental disease, a social-ethical disorder, and a literary unorthodoxy in Greek and Latin literature. Through illustrative case studies, the contributors to this volume examine two distinct, yet historically and poetically interrelated traditions of ‘pathological love’: lovesickness as/similar to disease and deviant sexuality described in nosologic terms. The chapters represent a wide range of genres (lyric poetry, philosophy, oratory, comedy, tragedy, elegy, satire, novel, and of course medical literature) and a fascinating synthesis of methodologies and approaches, including textual criticism, comparative philology, narratology, performance theory, and social history. The book closes with an anthology of Greek and Latin passages on pathological erôs. While primarily aimed at an academic readership, the book is accessible to anyone interested in Classics and/or the theme of love.

Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought

Author : Chiara Thumiger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009241354
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought written by Chiara Thumiger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an archaic, unfamiliar and Greek-sounding disease described by the Hippocratics, 'phrenitis', to meningitis, stress syndrome and delirium: this book takes the reader on a journey through key phases of Western ideas about human physiology and mental health and reflects on loss and survival in the history of disease.

The Physiology and the Pathology of Love

Author : Paolo Mantegazza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780899010359
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Physiology and the Pathology of Love written by Paolo Mantegazza and published by . This book was released on 1981-10-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Melancholy, Love, and Time

Author : Peter G. Toohey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025597
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Melancholy, Love, and Time written by Peter G. Toohey and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient literature features many powerful narratives of madness, depression, melancholy, lovesickness, simple boredom, and the effects of such psychological states upon individual sufferers. Peter Toohey turns his attention to representations of these emotional states in the Classical, Hellenistic, and especially the Roman imperial periods in a study that illuminates the cultural and aesthetic significance of this emotionally charged literature. His probing analysis shows that a shifting representation of these afflicted states, and the concomitant sense of isolation from one's social affinities and surroundings, manifests a developing sense of the self and self-consciousness in the ancient world. This book makes important contributions to a variety of disciplines including classical studies, comparative literature, literary and art history, history of medicine, history of emotions, psychiatry, and psychology. Peter Toohey is Professor and Department Head of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Consumption and Literature

Author : C. Lawlor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230625746
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Consumption and Literature written by C. Lawlor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to explain how consumption - a horrible disease - came to be the glamorous and artistic Romantic malady. It tries to explain the disparity between literary myth and bodily reality, by examining literature and medicine from the Renaissance to the late Victorian period, covering a wide range of authors and characters.

The Evolution of Love

Author : Emil Lucka
Publisher : Tredition Classics
ISBN 13 : 9783849500092
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Love written by Emil Lucka and published by Tredition Classics. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

Greek and Latin Love

Author : Thea S. Thorsen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110633035
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Greek and Latin Love written by Thea S. Thorsen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often claimed that the kind of love that is variously deemed 'romantic' or 'true' did not exist in antiquity. Yet, ancient literature abounds with stories that seem to adhere precisely to this kind of love. This volume focuses on such literature and the concepts of love it espouses. The volume differs from and challenges much existing classical scholarship which has traditionally privileged the theme of sex over love and prose-genres over those of poetry. By conversely focusing on love and poetry, the present volume freshly explores central poets in ancient literature, such Homer, Sappho, Terence, Catullus, Virgil, Horace and Ovid, alongside less canonized, such as the anonymous poet of The Lament for Bion, Philodemus and Sulpicia. The chapters, which are written by world-leading as well as younger scholars, reveal that Greek and Latin concepts of love seem interconnected, that such love is as relevant for hetero- as homoerotic couples, and that such ideas of love follow the mainstream of poetry throughout antiquity. In addition to the general reader interested in the history of love, this volume is relevant for students and scholars of the ancient world and the poetic tradition.

The Secret Wound

Author : Marion Wells
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804767446
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Wound written by Marion Wells and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-03 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new reading of early modern romance in the light of historically contemporary accounts of mind, and specifically the medical tradition of love-melancholy. The book argues that the medical profile of the melancholic lover provides an essential context for understanding the characteristic patterns of romance: narrative deferral, epistemological uncertainty, and the endless quest for a quasi-phantasmic beloved. Unlike many recent studies of romance, this book establishes a detailed historical basis for investigating the psychological structure of romance. Wells begins by tracing the development of the medical disorder first known in the Latin west as amor hereos (lovesickness) from its earliest roots in Greek and Arabic medicine to its translation into the Latin medical tradition. Drawing on this detailed historical material, the book considers three important early modern romances: Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, and Spenser's The Faerie Queene, concluding with a brief consideration of the significance of this literary and medical legacy for Romanticism. Most broadly, the interdisciplinary nature of this study allows the author to investigate the central critical problem of early modern subjectivity in substantially new ways.

Classical Love Poetry

Author : Dr. Jonathan Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714122809
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Classical Love Poetry written by Dr. Jonathan Williams and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the darkly erotic poetry of Sappho to the bawdy advice of Ovid, love is a ubiquitous theme in Classical poetry. This newly revised edition collects the best short poems and extracts from the Classical tradition, by authors including Virgil, Homer, Catullus, Horace, Sappho and Ovid, and illustrates them with the finest Classical and classically inspired pieces from the British Museums extensive collection. With an engaging and informative introduction on love in Classical poetry and a short biographical note on each of the poets covered, Classical Love Poetry is a delightful exploration of the treasures of Classical literature and art that will be equally appreciated by aficionados and those coming to the poems for the first time.

Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination

Author : Katherine Byrne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521766672
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination written by Katherine Byrne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, giving insights into how society viewed this disease and its sufferers.

A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love Between the Sexes

Author : Sanford Bell
Publisher : Tredition Classics
ISBN 13 : 9783849147402
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love Between the Sexes written by Sanford Bell and published by Tredition Classics. This book was released on 2012 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

Love Romances of the Aristocracy

Author : Thornton Hall
Publisher : Tredition Gmbh
ISBN 13 : 9783849172893
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Love Romances of the Aristocracy written by Thornton Hall and published by Tredition Gmbh. This book was released on 2012 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature

Author : Hunter H. Gardner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192516361
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature written by Hunter H. Gardner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists, journalists, novelists, and filmmakers continue to generate narratives of contagion, stories shaped by a tradition of disease discourse that extends to early Greco-Roman literature. Lucretius, Vergil, and Ovid developed important conventions of the western plague narrative as a response to the breakdown of the Roman res publica in the mid-first century CE and the reconstitution of stabilized government under the Augustan Principate (31 BCE-14 CE): relying on the metaphoric relationship between the human body and the body politic, these authors used largely fictive representations of epidemic disease to address the collapse of the social order and suggest remedies for its recovery. Theorists such as Susan Sontag and René Girard have observed how the rhetoric of disease frequently signals social, psychological, or political pathologies, but their observations have rarely been applied to Latin literary practices. Pestilence and the Body Politic in Latin Literature explores how the origins and spread of outbreaks described by Roman writers enact a drama in which the concerns of the individual must be weighed against those of the collective, staged in an environment signalling both reversion to a pre-historic Golden Age and the devastation characteristic of a post-apocalyptic landscape. Such innovations in Latin literature have impacted representations as diverse as Carlo Coppola's paintings of a seventeenth-century outbreak of bubonic plague in Naples and Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam Trilogy. Understanding why Latin writers developed these tropes for articulating contagious disease and imbuing them with meaning for the collapse of the Roman body politic allows us to clarify what more recent disease discourses mean both for their creators and for the populations they afflict in contemporary media.

The Roman Elegists' Attitude to Women

Author : Saara Lilja
Publisher : Dissertations-G
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Roman Elegists' Attitude to Women written by Saara Lilja and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1978 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fiction of Ian McEwan

Author : M. Hutton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230211275
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Fiction of Ian McEwan written by M. Hutton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most established, and controversial, writers. This book introduces students to a range of critical approaches to McEwan's fiction. Criticism is drawn from selections in academic essays and articles, and reviews in newspapers, journals, magazines and websites, with editorial comment providing context, drawing attention to key points and identifying differences in critical perspectives. The book features selections from published interviews with Ian McEwan and covers all of the writer's novels to date, including his latest novel Saturday.

Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian toimituksia

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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The Handbook Of Classical Literature

Author : Lillian Feder
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306808807
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook Of Classical Literature written by Lillian Feder and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1998-08-22 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Abdera (an ancient city in Thrace) to Zeus (chief god of the Greeks), this authoritative handbook covers all the major aspects of Greek and Roman literature, mythology, and civilization. It features over 950 entries on ancient writers, philosophers, and historians like Homer, Vergil, and Plato; famous as well as lesser-known writings like The Iliad, The Aeneid, and The Bacchae; chief gods and characters of mythology like Aphrodite, Apollo, and Narcissus; important terms and genres like poetic meter, tragedy, and satire; and other topics necessary to understanding the often complicated literature. Major works receive pages of close attention, with detailed summaries, historical and mythological background, scholarly references, critical commentary, and useful translation recommendations. The guidebook also provides insights into the stories, characters, ideas, and terminology that pervade literary classics as well as present-day writing and culture. Written in a lively and engaging style, The Handbook of Classical Literature serves as an accessible and reliable resource for students, scholars, and general readers.