| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 302 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 relation by an assessment of linguistic and artistic configurations of desire in European literature from antiquity to the early modern period. The aim is to explore historic continuities and ruptures in attitudes towards sexuality, pleasures and bodies, as these are represented in a variety of cultural forms, in order to demonstrate the plurality of premodern desire - and, ultimately, to offer fresh perspectives on our present reality. The seventeen scholars participating in the anthology bring together theories and assessments from different areas of the humanities--German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, and comparative literature, the history of ideas and of art, theology, philosophy and gender studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at chapter ends, and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Literature, Ancient -- History and criticism
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- 15th and 16th centuries -- History and criticism.
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Desire (Philosophy) -- History and criticism
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Desire in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Literature, Modern
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Desire (Philosophy)
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Desire in literature
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Literature, Ancient
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Literature, Medieval
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| Genre/Form |
Literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cullhed, Anders, 1951- editor.
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Franzén, Carin. editor.
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Hallengren, Anders, 1950- editor.
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Malm, Mats., editor
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| ISBN |
9781443869737 |
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1443869732 |
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1443847631 |
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9781443847636 |
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