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Autore |
Høystad O. M |
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Titolo |
A history of the heart [[electronic resource] /] / Ole M. Høystad |
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ISBN |
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1-282-89309-2 |
9786612893094 |
1-86189-833-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human body in popular culture |
Heart in art |
Heart in literature |
Heart - Mythology |
Heart - Symbolic aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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A History of the Heart Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Contents (ii); Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Heart in Different Cultures; 1. The World of Gilgamesh; 2. Ancient Egypt; 3. The Complex Man of Antiquity; 4. The Heart in the Bible and in Christianity; 5. Islam's Culture of the Heart; 6. The Aztecs - Why So Heartless?; 7. Norse Anthropology; Part II: The Battle for the Western Heart; 8. The Emotional Turn in the High Middle Ages; 9. The New Subject; 10. Montaigne: Man is his Own Work; 11. From the Renaissance and Alchemy to the Romantic Era; 12. Shakespeare and the Heart of Darkness |
13. Rousseau - Philosopher of the Heart14. Herder and the Expressivist Turn; 15. Faustian Goethe; 16. The Disenchantment and Re-enchantment of the Heart; Coda: The Emotional Cycle; References; Bibliography; Photo Acknowledgements; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A fascinating investigation into the heart, the locus of grief, joy, and power, through human culture, history, myth and science. |
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