Rethinking the mind-body relationship in early modern literature, philosophy and medicine: the renaissance of the body 9781138823914, 9781315741789, 1138823910

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English Pages xii, 167 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm Year 2016;2015

Rethinking the mind-body relationship in early modern literature, philosophy and medicine: the renaissance of the body
9781138823914, 9781315741789, 1138823910

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Table of contents :
1. Introduction: Intelligent Bodies in Early Modern Philosophy, Medicine and Literature 2. Montaigne's Corporeal Self: A Dialectics of Bisubjectivity and its Medicinal Virtues 3. The Allegory of the Body and the Body of Allegory in Spenser's The Faerie Queene 4. Thinking (of) Feelings: Reaching for the Divine in Donne's Poetry 5. The Intelligent Body on the Stage and the Wonder of Tragic Pleasure 6. Milton's Prophetic Mission: At the Boarders of Poetry and Music 7. Epilogue: The Afterlives of the Intelligent Body

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