Robert C.A. Frederickson (ed.); Hugh C. Hendrie (ed.); Joseph N. Hingtgen (ed.); Morris H. Aprison (ed.) Springer (2011) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Robert C.A. Frederickson; Hugh C. Hendrie; Joseph N. Hingtgen; Morris H. Aprison Kluwer Academic Publishers (1986) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Kovakantinen kirja
In The Motion of the Heart and Blood (1653), William Harvey had set forth the scientific model of a phallic, generative organ pumping blood through a feminized body; in Paradise Lost, it is through the protracted rape and violation of Eve's heart that the Fall of Man occurs; nearly a century later Samuel Richardson's Clarissa would present a no less forceful but far more feminist and heroic narrative of the heart's power. Examining these other—and mostly English-literary, medical, religious, and philosophical texts, Erickson uncovers two ruling clusters of metaphors: one associating the heart with language, writing, and thought, the other with sex, passion, and gender. Charting the tension between the two, he offers a brilliant new reading of one of the central symbols in Western culture.
