The art of love

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Jula Wildberger

Just suppose someone wanted to teach the kind of love practiced in Latin love elegy. How would he do it? What difference does it make for 'elegiac love' if it becomes the subject matter of a do-it-yourself handbook? This is the leading question I've explored in this book, following the course step by step and analyzing the 'pedagogy' of Ovid, the Master of Love. Some readers might enjoy thinking about the logic of love by itself. For others, the book might provide something like a running commentary to a text the enjoy exploring. And if you are interested in the mechanics of literary devices, you can find here an in-depth discussion of a striking example of generic transformation, a transformation that would seem paradoxical or outright impossible: the metamorphosis of unhappy, always frustrated 'elegiac' love into the successful erotic practice of the Artists of Love. (The Author) P.S. The copyright for this book now belongs to me. Please feel free to use it for any non-commercial purpose.

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Sherryll S. Mleynek

"Aristotle identifies "the transformation from ignorance to knowledge," or anagnorisis, as crucial to dramatic tension. Using the Biblical "garden" as the locus classicus of anagnorisis in Western narrative fiction, this study establishes the connection between knowledge and mortality in Genesis, and analyzes anagnorisis and mortality in three nineteenth-century British novels, Middlemarch, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Pride and Prejudice, and in the "post-modern" novel Possession. Ultimately, it is a proof that the suffusing literary motif of "knowledge and mortality" is inescapable: it transcends fictional genre and period because the "knowledge of mortality" is humanity's most ontologically disturbing burden."--BOOK JACKET.

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Nathalie Aubert

Poète belge de langue française, Christian Dotremont (1922-1979) a poursuivi, tant au sein des grandes avant-gardes artistiques du XXe siècle (le surréalisme, le surréalisme-révolutionnaire et Cobra) qu'individuellement, une recherche personnelle qui l'a placé non seulement au coeur des débats littéraires et philosophiques de son temps, mais aussi, comme nombre d'artistes de sa génération, au centre des débats éthiques et politiques. Cet ouvrage retrace l'intégralité de son parcours.

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Nick Bromell

"Weaving together memoir and musicology, history, and politics, Bromell shows how millions of listeners mixed rock and psychedelics in a quest to make sense of themselves and their times. This combination was not mere escapism, he argues, but a vital public philosophy, one that we must do justice to in order to comprehend not just the past but the present."--BOOK JACKET.