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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Lovesickness"”.
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The Motif of Lovesickness in the Acts of Paul and Thecla and the Acts of Andrew
This thesis explores the literary motif of lovesickness in two early Christian ascetic texts - the Acts of Paul and Thecla and the Acts of Andrew. In order to argue that the authors of these texts utilized lovesickness as a motif, I contextualize the illness in contemporaneous literature including …
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ENTRE EL DESEO Y EL PUDOR, EL AMOR HEREOS EN LA NOVELA SENTIMENTAL: GRISEL Y MIRABELLA DE JUAN DE FLORES
… believed to be susceptible to amorous passion or lovesickness. I propose that a more nuanced and complete understanding of women’s roles and actual behavior can be reached by analyzing the same medical and philosophical treatises that deny them the possibility of suffering from lovesickness. In …
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Displacing Desires in Early Modern Drama
"The introduction examines treatises on lovesickness to demonstrate affinities between Lacanian and early modern theories of a constitutively displaced desire, a perspective often overlooked by ostensibly more historicist approaches. The first chapter looks at the triangular jealous rivalries of …
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Star-struck, lovesick, poet-musicians: Troubadours and the cultural significance of music in Medieval society
… song both address symptoms and cures for lovesickness. Finally, musica instrumentalis concerns the practice of music; I survey the troubadour manuscripts for images of musical instruments and speculate about the use of instruments in accompanying troubadour song, shedding light on the …
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Mourning, Melancholia, and Masculinity in Medieval Literature
… has most often been absorbed into studies of lovesickness, madness, the wilderness, or more formalist concerns with genre, form, and literary convention, but has seldom been discussed in its own right. This pattern consists of love, loss, grief madness and/or melancholy, wilderness …
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Huérfanos de Orfeo: poesía y música en la cultura de los Siglos de Oro
… music as not being able to cure the torments of lovesickness or to respond articulately to the sharpest pangs of grief is a way to enact the anxiety of poetry not being able to move the listener, and of words not being able to grapple with the complexity of deep emotion. However, at the same time …
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Metamorphoses of the Butterfly in Classical Antiquity: From the Female Body to the Soul of the Dead
… deals with the butterfly’s connection with lovesickness, as the cutaneous rash caused by its wings was deemed to be one of the symptoms of excessive erotic desire in ancient Greece. In Chapter Four I also involve other animal symbols and I explore in more detail the connection between skin …