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 : 4.62/5 ( 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.

Author : Chiara Thumiger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009241354
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( 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.

Author : Paolo Mantegazza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780899010359
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( 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:

Author : C. Lawlor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230625746
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( 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.

Author : Peter Toohey
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472113026
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melancholy, Love, and Time written by Peter Toohey and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the effects and meaning of emotional states of distress in ancient literature

Author : Dr. Jonathan Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714122809
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( 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.

Author : Katherine Byrne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521766672
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( 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.

Author : Marion Wells
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804767446
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( 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.

Author : Emil Lucka
Publisher : Tredition Classics
ISBN 13 : 9783849191221
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( 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 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.

Author : Sanford Bell
Publisher : Tredition Classics
ISBN 13 : 9783849147402
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( 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.