The Subtle Knot

Author : Lianne Habinek
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773554300
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( 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.

Author : Margaret Lenore Wiley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( 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:

Author : Margaret L. Wiley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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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:

Author : Simon Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019758103X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( 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"--

Author : Margaret Lenora Wiley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( 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:

Author : John Donne
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393960624
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( 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.

Author : Stefania Pandolfo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022646511X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( 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.

Author : Sarah Hogan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503606139
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( 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.

Author : Mark Richardson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252023385
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( 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.

Author : Erin Bow
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545578000
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( 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.