Author: Guy de MaupassantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Viaticum and Other Stories
Author: Guy de MaupassantLovesickness in the Middle Ages
Author: Mary Frances WackPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512809535
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
According to medieval physicians, lovesickness was an illness of mind and body caused by sexual desire and the sight of beauty. The notorious agony of an unhappy lover was treated as an ailment closely related to melancholia and potentially fatal if not treated. In Lovesickness in the Middle Ages, Mary F. Wack uses newly discovered texts and takes a fresh look at primary sources to offer the first comprehensive analysis of the forms and meanings of the lover's malady in medieval culture. She examines its importance in medieval literature and its role in the transformation of courtly love from literary convention to social practice. Drawing extensively from the Viaticum and its commentaries, studied for centuries in medical schools, Wack also addresses wider questions about the cultural construction of illness, the conflict between medicine and Church morality, the relations between lovesickness and gender, and the lover's malady as a form of behavior in late medieval society. The second part of the book contains annotated editions and translations of six important texts on lovesickness—the Viaticum and four commentaries on it. Forty-six black-and-white illustrations provide a striking visual perspective on medieval love and medicine. Lovesickness in the Middle Ages will interest literary scholars and students as well as historians of medicine, sexuality, psychology, and women's studies.
The Logic of Flesh and Other Stories
Author: Norval RindfleischPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475927126
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
THE LOGIC OF FLESH and other stories is a gathering of new and previously uncollected stories with a wide selection of voices, characters and perspectives all united by Midwestern rural and urban setting from the 1940's through the 1970's. Th e stories range for graphic realism to the lyrical and poetic, from the colloquial to the reflective and satiric. Off beat and idiosyncratic, the characters occupy a world apart from main stream fiction and will strike the reader as refreshingly original.
The celibates, Bachelor's establishment, and other stories
Author: Honoré de BalzacFame and sorrow and other stories
Author: Honoré de BalzacSeraphita. A daughter of Eve, and other stories
Author: Honoré de BalzacA Widow's Tale, and Other Stories
Author: Margaret OliphantPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040563493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
The Wish House and Other Stories
Author: Rudyard KiplingPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307760022
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 693
Book Description
Rudyard Kipling, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1907, has long been considered an important and vibrant, even controversial, storyteller and poet. The Wish House and Other Stories is a collection of Kipling’s finest works, including the stories “In the House of Suddhoo,” “The Disturber of Traffic,” and “The Eye of Allah,” the poems “The Runners,” “The Return of the Children,” and “The Last Ode,” and his famous story about Afghanistan, “The Man Who Would Be King.” Each piece was selected by poet and scholar Craig Raine, who writes in his Preface, “We need to think about Kipling. He is our greatest short-story writer, but one whose achievement is more complex and surprising than even his admirers recognize.”
The Viaticum and Other Stories
Author: Guy de MaupassantPublisher:
ISBN: 9781434498342
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Includes "The Viaticum," "The Relics," "The Thief," "A Rupture," "A Useful House," and 49 other stories.
Author: Honoré de Balzac