A history of the heart / / Ole M. Høystad
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| Autore: |
Høystad O. M
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| Titolo: |
A history of the heart / / Ole M. Høystad
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Reaktion, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Human body in popular culture |
| Heart in art | |
| Heart in literature | |
| Heart - Mythology | |
| Heart - Symbolic aspects | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Heart; 14. 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A fascinating investigation into the heart, the locus of grief, joy, and power, through human culture, history, myth and science. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A history of the heart |
| ISBN: | 1-282-89309-2 |
| 9786612893094 | |
| 1-86189-833-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785206003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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