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The Subtle Knot

Author : Lianne Habinek
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773554300
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Subtle Knot written by Lianne Habinek and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early modern period, poetic form underpinned and influenced scientific progress. The language and imagery of seventeenth-century writers and natural philosophers reveal how the age-old struggle between body and soul led to the brain’s emergence as a curiosity in its own right. Investigating the intersection of the humanities and sciences in the works of authors ranging from William Shakespeare and John Donne to William Harvey, Margaret Cavendish, and Johann Remmelin, Lianne Habinek tells how early modernity came to view the brain not simply as grey matter but as a wealth of other wondrous possibilities – a book in which to read the soul’s writing, a black box to be violently unlocked, a womb to nourish intellectual conception, a creative engine, a subtle knot that traps the soul and thereby makes us human. For seventeenth-century thinkers, she argues, these comparisons were not simply casual metaphors but integral to early ideas about brain function. Demonstrating how the disparate fields of neuroscientific history and literary studies converged, The Subtle Knot tells the story of how the mind came to be identified with the brain.

The Subtle Knot

Author : Margaret Lenore Wiley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Subtle Knot written by Margaret Lenore Wiley and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Subtle Knot

Author : Margaret L. Wiley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Subtle Knot written by Margaret L. Wiley and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Donne's Poetry

Author : John Donne
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393960624
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book John Donne's Poetry written by John Donne and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1992 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of John Donne's Poetry presents a large selection of his most significant work. To the more than one hundred poems of the First Edition, nineteen new poems have now been added-five Elegies, four Satires (enabling the reader to view them as a sequence, as they have come to be regarded), six Verse Letters, and four Divine Poems.

Knot of the Soul

Author : Stefania Pandolfo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022646511X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Knot of the Soul written by Stefania Pandolfo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a dual engagement with the unconscious in psychoanalysis and Islamic theological-medical reasoning, Stefania Pandolfo’s unsettling and innovative book reflects on the maladies of the soul at a time of tremendous global upheaval. Drawing on in-depth historical research and testimonies of contemporary patients and therapists in Morocco, Knot of the Soul offers both an ethnographic journey through madness and contemporary formations of despair and a philosophical and theological exploration of the vicissitudes of the soul. Knot of the Soul moves from the experience of psychosis in psychiatric hospitals, to the visionary torments of the soul in poor urban neighborhoods, to the melancholy and religious imaginary of undocumented migration, culminating in the liturgical stage of the Qur’anic cure. Demonstrating how contemporary Islamic cures for madness address some of the core preoccupations of the psychoanalytic approach, she reveals how a religious and ethical relation to the “ordeal” of madness might actually allow for spiritual transformation. This sophisticated and evocative work illuminates new dimensions of psychoanalysis and the ethical imagination while also sensitively examining the collective psychic strife that so many communities endure today.

The Subtle Body

Author : Simon Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019758103X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book The Subtle Body written by Simon Cox and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How does the soul relate to the body? Through the ages many religions and intellectual movements have posed answers to this question. Many have gravitated to the notion of the subtle body, positing some kind of subtle entity that is neither soul nor body, but some mixture of the two. This book traces the history of this idea from the late Roman empire to the present day, touching on how philosophers, wizards, scholars, occultists, psychologists, and mystics have engaged with the idea over the past two thousand years. The book begins in the late Roman Empire, moving chronologically through the Renaissance, British project of colonial Indology, development of Theosophy and occultism in the 19th century through to the Euro-American counterculture of the 1960's and 70's"--

The Subtle Knot, Creative Scepticism in Seventeenth-century England, by Margaret L. Wiley

Author : Margaret Lenora Wiley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book The Subtle Knot, Creative Scepticism in Seventeenth-century England, by Margaret L. Wiley written by Margaret Lenora Wiley and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Other Englands

Author : Sarah Hogan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503606139
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Other Englands written by Sarah Hogan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other Englands examines the rise of the early English utopia in the context of emergent capitalism. Above all, it asserts that this literary genre was always already an expression of social crisis and economic transition, a context refracted in the origin stories and imagined geographies common to its early modern form. Beginning with the paradigmatic popular utopias of Thomas More and Francis Bacon but attentive to non-canonical examples from the margins of the tradition, the study charts a shifting and, by the time of the English Revolution, self-critical effort to think communities in dynamic socio-spatial forms. Arguing that early utopias have been widely misunderstood and maligned as static, finished polities, Sarah Hogan makes the case that utopian literature offered readers and writers a transformational and transitional social imaginary. She shows how a genre associated with imagining systemic alternatives both contested and contributed to the ideological construction of capitalist imperialism. In the early English utopia, she finds both a precursor to the Enlightenment discourse of political economy and another historical perspective on the beginnings and enduring conflicts of global capital.

The Ordeal of Robert Frost

Author : Mark Richardson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252023385
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book The Ordeal of Robert Frost written by Mark Richardson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close readings of Frost's poetry and often ignored prose, Mark Richardson argues that Frost's debates with Van Wyck Brooks, Malcolm Cowley, and H. L. Mencken informed his poetics and his poetic style just as much as did his deep identification with earlier writers like Emerson and William James.

The Subtle Knot

Author : Margaret L. Wiley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Subtle Knot written by Margaret L. Wiley and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sorrow's Knot

Author : Erin Bow
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545578000
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Sorrow's Knot written by Erin Bow and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2014 Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy, from the author of Plain Kate. At the very edge of the world live the Shadowed People. And with them live the dead.There, in the village of Westmost, Otter is born to power. She is the proud daughter of Willow, the greatest binder of the dead in generations. It will be Otter's job someday to tie the knots of the ward, the only thing that keeps the living safe.Kestrel is training to be a ranger, one of the brave women who venture into the forest to gather whatever the Shadowed People can't live without and to fight off whatever dark threat might slip through the ward's defenses.And Cricket wants to be a storyteller -- already he shows the knack, the ear -- and already he knows dangerous secrets. But something is very wrong at the edge of the world. Willow's power seems to be turning inside out. The ward is in danger of falling. And lurking in the shadows, hungry, is a White Hand, the most dangerous of the dead, whose very touch means madness, and worse.Suspenseful, eerie, and beautifully imagined.

Historic Tales, Vol 10 (of 15)

Author : Charles Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 3752436379
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Historic Tales, Vol 10 (of 15) written by Charles Morris and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) by Charles Morris

Air and Angels

Author : John Donne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781861715395
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Air and Angels written by John Donne and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JOHN DONNE: AIR AND ANGELS: SELECTED POEMS A selection of the finest poems by British poet John Donne. John Donne was, Robert Graves said, a 'Muse poet', a poetwho wrote passionately of the Muse. It is easy to see Donne asa love poet, in the tradition of love poets such as Bernard deVentadour, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch and Torquato Tasso. Donne has written his fair share of lovepoems. There are the bawdy allusions to the phallus in 'TheFlea', while 'The Comparison' parodies the adoration poem, with references to the 'sweat drops of my mistress' breast'. Like William Shakespeare in his parody sonnet 'my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun', Donne sends up the Petrarchan and courtly love genre with gross comparisons ('Like spermatic issue of ripe menstruous boils'). In 'The Bait', there is the archetypal Renaissance opening line 'Come live with me, and be my love', as used by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare, among others. And there is the complex, ambivalent eroticism of 'The Extasie', a much celebrated love poem, and the 19th 'Elegy', where features Donne's famous couplet: Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below. The Songs and Sonnets of John Donne celebrate the many emotions of love, feelings that are so familiar in love poetry from Sappho to Adrienne Rich. Donne does not quite cover every emotion of love, but a good deal of them. In 'The Canonization', we find the age-old Neo-platonic belief that two can become as one ('we two being one', or 'we shall/ Be one', he writes in 'Lovers' Infiniteness'), a common belief in love poetry. John Donne's love poetry, like (nearly) all love poetry, self-reflexive. Although he would 'ne'er parted be', as he writes in 'Song: Sweetest love, I do not go', he knows that love poetry comes out of loss. The beloved woman is not there, so art takes her place. The Songs and Sonnets arise from loss, loss of love; they take the place of love. For, if he were clasping his beloved in those feverish embraces as described in 'The Extasie' and 'Elegy', he would not, obviously, bother with poetry. Love poetry has this ambivalent, difficult relationship with love. The poem is not love, and is no real substitute for it. And writing of love exacerbates the pain and the insecurity of the experience of love. With an introduction and bibliography. Illustrated, with new pictures. The text has been revised for this edition. Also available in an E-book edition. www.crmoon.com. "

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

Author : Robert M. Durling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199723355
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri written by Robert M. Durling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the entirety of Dante's epic poem of spiritual ascent with the guidance of one of the greatest living Italian-to-English translators. Reunited with his beloved Beatrice in the Purgatorio, in the Paradiso the poet-narrator journeys with her through the heavenly spheres and comes to know "the state of blessed souls after death." As with the previous volumes, the original Italian and its English translation appear on facing pages. Readers will be drawn to Durling's precise and vivid prose, which captures Dante's extraordinary range of expression--from the high style of divine revelation to colloquial speech, lyrical interludes, and scornful diatribes against corrupt clergy. This edition boasts several unique features. Durling's introduction explores the chief interpretive issues surrounding the Paradiso, including the nature of its allegories, the status in the poem of Dante's human body, and his relation to the mystical tradition. The notes at the end of each canto provide detailed commentary on historical, theological, and literary allusions, and unravel the obscurity and difficulties of Dante's ambitious style . An unusual feature is the inclusion of the text, translation, and commentary on one of Dante's chief models, the famous cosmological poem by Boethius that ends the third book of his Consolation of Philosophy. A substantial section of Additional Notes discusses myths, symbols, and themes that figure in all three cantiche of Dante's masterpiece. Finally, the volume includes a set of indexes that is unique in American editions, including Proper Names Discussed in the Notes (with thorough subheadings concerning related themes), Passages Cited in the Notes, and Words Discussed in the Notes, as well as an Index of Proper Names in the text and translation. Like the previous volumes, this final volume includes a rich series of illustrations by Robert Turner.

The Nail Knot

Author : John Galligan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982187867
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Nail Knot written by John Galligan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rolling into little Black Earth, Wisconsin, intending to go fly fishing, Ned "Dog" Oglivie instead stumbles upon the body of a man trying to save Black Earth Creek, and wonders if by caring about the death of a stranger, he can recover his own life.

Knots

Author : David Lipset
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000840212
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Knots written by David Lipset and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knots are well known as symbols of moral relationships. This book develops an exciting new view of this otherwise taken-for-granted image and considers their metaphoric value in and for moral order. In chapters that focus on Japan, China, Europe, South America and in several Pacific Island societies, granular ethnography depicts how knots are deployed to express unity in daily and ritual embodiment, political authority and the cosmos, as well as in social thought. The volume will be of interest to anthropologists and other scholars concerned with metaphor and symbolism, material culture and technology.

Being of Two Minds

Author : Jonathan Goldberg
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 1531501621
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Being of Two Minds written by Jonathan Goldberg and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being of Two Minds examines the place that early modern literature held in Modernist literary criticism. For T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and William Empson, the early modern period helps model a literary future. At stake in their engagements across time were ontological questions about literature and its ability to mediate between the one and the many, the particular and the general, life and death, the past and the present. If reading and writing literature enables the mind to be in two places at once, creative experience serves as a way to participate in an expanded field of consciousness alongside mortality. Goldberg reads the readings that these modernists performed on texts that Eliot claimed for the canon like the metaphysical poets and Jacobean dramatists, but also Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, and Margaret Cavendish. Ontological concerns are reflected in Eliot’s engagement with Aristotle’s theory of the soul and Empson’s Buddhism. These arguments about being affect minds and bodies and call into question sexual normativity: Eliot glances at a sodomitical male-male mode of literary transmission; Woolf produces a Judith Shakespeare to model androgynous being; Empson refuses to distinguish activity from passivity to rewrite gender difference. The work of one of our leading literary and cultural critics, Being of Two Minds spans centuries to show how the most compelling and surprising ideas about mind, experience, and existence not only move between early modernity, high modernism, and our own moment, but are also constituted through that very movement between times and minds.