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Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary, 1992
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Hutchinson, Dale L.; Koszowski, Allen; Ross, Daniel Alan; Sargent, Stanley C.; Thomas, Jeffrey; Worthy, Peter (illustrator).
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1992
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. 94 Clean, Unmarked Pages. Yellow Cloth, Spine Lettered In Black. Neatly Signed By Cal Tech Aeronautical Engineering Professor Peter Lissaman. In 1971 He Was A Founding Vp At Aerovironment Inc., Working On Many Innovative Vehicles And Concepts, Including The Gossamer Condor, The First Succ…essful Human Powered Airplane. He Received The Kremer Prize From The Royal Aeronautical Society And The Longstreth Medal From The Franklin Society For His Contributions To The Gossamer Condor And Albatross. At Aerovironment He Made Many Contributions To Wind Energy, And Solar And Electric Powered Automobiles And Aircraft. He Spent 30 Years Working On Research Related To Environmental Issues Including Air Quality, Wind And Hydropower And Solar Energy. He Had Many Marine Interests: Developing Surfboards And Swimming Devices, Organizing Conferences On Sailboat Design And As A Member Of The Team That Developed Stars And Stripes, The 12 Meter Racing Yacht That Restored The America's Cup To The U.S. The Last Years Of His Career Were At Usc As An Adjunct Professor. Peter Was An Enthusiastic Tennis Player, Backcountry Hiker And Fly Fisherman. He Fished The Yellowstone Waters For Almost 50 Years. Black and White Photgraphs (illustrator).
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Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Sehr gut. 178 p. Ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / A very good and clean copy without markings. - Contents Acknowledgments List of Primary Texts Introduction 1. The Illusion of Love, the Love of Illusion: The Ars amatoria and Remedia amoris 2. From Rome to France: Und…er the Sign of Ovid 3. The Diligent Reader and the Twofold Text: Andreas Capellanus and the Rhetoric of Love 4. Through the Looking Glass: Jean de Meuns Mirror for Lovers Appendix. Medieval Reception and Transmission of Ovids Amatory Works: An Overview Notes Index. ISBN 9780812231885 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 496.
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Zustand: Wie Neu. Zustandsbeschreibung: textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed. Amatory Fiction from Ovid to the 'Romance of the Rose'. Allen argues that the 'De amore' and the 'Romance of the Rose' are central to the courtly tradition. Allen con…tends that their conflicts and contradictions are not signs of confusion or artistic failure, but are instead essential clues which show that the medieval works follow the disruptive structural model of Ovid's first century elegiac Ars amatoria (Art of Love) and Remedia amoris (Cures for Love). Andreas's and Jean's works, no less than Ovid's, teach not the art of love for practicing lovers, but the literary art of love poetry and fiction. XI,178 Seiten, gebunden (Middle Ages Series/University of Pennsylvania Press 1992). Früher EUR 79,50. Gewicht: 520 g - Gebunden/Gebundene Ausgabe.
Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan: A Dialogue
Ruti, Mari/ Rashkin, Esther (Editor)/ Allen, Amy/ Ruti, Mari (Editor)/ Rudnytsky, Peter L. (Editor)
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Two major French medieval literary works that claim to teach their readers the art of love are virtually torn apart by the contradictions and conflicts they contain. In Andreas Capellanus's late twelfth-century Latin De amore, the author instructs his friend Walter in the amatory art in the first tw…o books, but then harshly repudiates his own teachings and love itself in a third and final book. In Jean de Meun's encyclopedic continuation of the Romance of the Rose, written in French in the 1270s, a succession of allegorical figures alternately promote and excoriate the lover's amatory pursuits. Jean's romance, moreover, virtually rewrites the dream vision of Guillaume de Lorris, which it claims simply to extend, and ends with the depiction of a sexual act that seems to throw the book's whole structure into confusion. The more closely one reads this works, Peter L. Allen contents, the harder it is to understand them: 'Didactic, heavy-handed, and problematic, they teach would-be lovers how to behave in order to have others accomplish their desires, yet they also contain vociferous passages that dissuade their protagonists from the practice of this art, which, they claim, leads not only to earthly destruction but also to eternal damnation.' Readers from the Middle Ages to the present have been troubled by the fact that these texts are both radically self-contradictory and fundamentally at odds with the accepted morality of medieval Christian Europe. And for decades, scholars have tried to determine how these two works are related to what is often referred to as 'courtly love.' In The Art of Love, Allen persuasive argues that the De amore and the Romance of the Rose are central to the courtly tradition. Allen contends that their conflicts and contradictions are not signs of confusion or artistic failure, but are instead essential clues which show that the medieval works follow the disruptive structural model of Ovid's first century elegiac Ars amatoria (Art of Love) and Remedia amoris (Cures for Love). Andreas's and Jean's works, no less than Ovid's, teach not the art of love for practicing lovers, but the literary art of love poetry and fiction. Based squarely on Ovid's poems, which were among the most widely read classical texts in medieval Europe, the De amore and the Romance of the Rose use the classical tradition in a particularly assertive fashion-and suggest a way for fantasies of love to exist even against a background of ecclesiastical prohibition.
