The Secret Wound: Love-Melancholy and Early Modern RomanceStanford University Press, 2007 M01 3 - 380 páginas 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. |
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The Secret Wound of LoveMelancholy | 60 |
Epic Romance and the Poetics | 96 |
the Gerusalemme Liberata | 137 |
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Ages amore Anatomy of Melancholy appears argues Ariosto's Arthur's associated beauty becomes begins beloved blood body Britomart's calls cause chapter clearly Clorinda closely conception condition context continually death desire despair discourse discussion disease draws dream earlier early modern edited epic eros erotic eyes faculty Faerie Queene fantasy female Ficino's figure furor grief heart imagination indicates internal interpretation italics kind language later literary loss lost love-melancholy lover Lovesickness madness maternal meaning medieval melancholic mind mother mourning narrative nature notes object obsessive origin Orlando particular passage passion perhaps Petrarch's phantasm Platonic pleasure poem poem's poetic precisely provides quest reading reference relationship represents romance seems sense sexual song sorrow soul Spenser's spirit structure suffering suggests Tancredi Tasso's tears theory things thought tion transformation translation turn vision voice Wack wound writing
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Lovesickness and Gender in Early Modern English Literature Lesel Dawson Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |
Moorings: Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa Josiah Blackmore Vista previa limitada - 2009 |