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Fragments d'un discours amoureux Fragments d'un discours amoureux Roland Barthes,Rolland Barthes,Ba er te Le désir de connaître mais aussi la troublante expérience de l'embarras et du tâtonnement confèrent à la réflexion philosophique sa dimension érotique. Pour les mêmes raisons, l'amour est philosophie… OL1374992W
De hominis dignitate De hominis dignitate Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,Patricia Mari-Fabre The Oration on the Dignity of Man (De hominis dignitate) is a famous public discourse pronounced in 1486 by Pico della Mirandola, an Italian scholar and philosopher of the Renaissance. It has been ca… OL1456989W
A companion to Ovid A companion to Ovid Peter E. Knox This companion to Ovid features more than 30 newly commissioned essays dealing with such topics as production, genre, and style. It presents interpretive essays on key poems and collections of poems,… OL16929091W
How the French invented love How the French invented love Marilyn Yalom Acclaimed scholar Marilyn Yalom distills the central tenets of the Gallic gospel of love from her reading of the great French literary works, as well as from the people she has known and her own memo… OL17034305W
Tratados de amor en el entorno de Celestina, siglos XV-XVI Tratados de amor en el entorno de Celestina, siglos XV-XVI Pedro M. Cátedra A selection of poems and other writings on love in the manner of Celestina by Spanish authors from the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries, some texts transcribed from the original manuscripts. OL18494095W
Before the closet Before the closet Allen J. Frantzen Allen J. Frantzen challenges the long accepted view that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of homosexuality developed only late in the medieval… OL1861476W
Poetics of love in the Middle Ages Poetics of love in the Middle Ages Moshe Lazar,Norris J. Lacy x, 281 p. : 24 cm OL19440297W
Juliet's answer Juliet's answer Glenn Dixon "When Glenn Dixon is spurned by love, he does something unusual. He travels to Verona, Italy, to become a scribe of Juliet, Shakespeare's fictional character, all in an attempt to understand his hear… OL20052244W
Antony and Cleopatra in context Antony and Cleopatra in context Keith Linley "This engaging book provides in-depth discussion of the various influences that an audience in 1607 would have brought to interpreting 'Antony and Cleopatra'. How did people think about the world, ab… OL23227157W
Erôs and the Polis Erôs and the Polis Ed Sanders Arising out of a conference on ‘Erôs in Ancient Greece’, the articles in this volume share a historicizing approach to the conventions and expectations of erôs in the context of the polis, in the Arc… OL23498641W
Another Kind of Love Another Kind of Love Christopher Craft In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history of sexuality, and the erotics of reading, Christopher Craft investigates questions fundamental to a… OL3933812W
Business talk Business talk Stephen Siddall,Mary Ward,Gareth Hughes xx, 283 p. : 22 cm OL4169203W
Clio, Eros, Thanatos Clio, Eros, Thanatos Theresa Ann Sears "Clio, Eros, Thanatos argues that the sentimental mode plays itself out along a scale from the chivalric to the pornographic, thereby encompassing amatory narratives both chaste and erotic. The texts… OL4281133W
Mystik und Erotik in Christian Morgensterns "Galgenliedern" Mystik und Erotik in Christian Morgensterns "Galgenliedern" Ioana Crăciun Morgensterns non-ritualisierte Suche nach Gott und die emblematisch-lyrische Sprache, die dieser Suche Ausdruck verleiht, die kritisch-polemische Haltung des Dichters allem Tradierten gegenüber, sein… OL4817089W
Goethe, der Mann von 60 Jahren Goethe, der Mann von 60 Jahren Hans Rudolf Vaget A study based on Goethe's poem "Das Tagebuch" (1810). OL5430499W