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"The self has a history. In the West, the idea of the soul entered Christianity with the Church Fathers, notably Augustine. During the Renaissance the idea of the individual attained preeminence, as in the works of Montaigne. In the 17th century, philosophers such as Descartes formulated notions of self-hood that did not require a divine foundation; in the next century, Hume grew skeptical of the self's very existence. Ideas of the self have changed markedly since the Romantic period and most scholars today regard it as at best a mental construct. First-person genres such as diaries and memoirs have provided an outlet for self-expression. Protestant diaries replaced the Catholic confessional, but secular diaries such as Pepys's may reveal yet more about the self. After Richardson, novels competed with diaries and memoirs as vehicles of self-expression, though memoirs survived and continue to thrive, while the diary has found a new incarnation in the personal blog. Writing the Self narrates the intertwined histories of the self and of self-expression through first-person literature."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Autobiography in literature. --- Self (Philosophy) --- Self in literature. --- Soul in literature. --- History. --- Autobiography in literature --- Self in literature --- Soul in literature --- History

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This book offers fresh insights into the plethora of medieval bodies and the multiple perspectives that can be assumed in their discussion. The ten essays by internationally renowned scholars and young academics encompass diverse approaches to the body such as the function of gestures, the gendered gaze, the body's spatial and geographical positioning, the (dis)integrity of the body or the connection between linguistic uses of 'body' and physical bodies. While most of the contributions of thi...

Literature, Medieval --- Body and soul in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism.

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For centuries readers have struggled to fuse the seemingly scattered pieces of Donne's works into a complete image of the poet and priest. In John Donne, Body and Soul, Ramie Targoff offers a way to read Donne as a writer who returned again and again to a single great subject, one that connected to his deepest intellectual and emotional concerns. Reappraising Donne's oeuvre in pursuit of the struggles and commitments that connect his most disparate works, Targoff convincingly shows that Donne believed throughout his life in the mutual necessity of body an

Body and soul in literature. --- Christianity and literature --- History --- Donne, John, --- Donn, John, --- Done, John, --- Donn, Dzhon, --- Dann, Dzhon, --- Донн, Джон, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Religion. --- Philosophy. --- john donne, poetry, poet, literature, classic, canon, priest, religion, spirituality, christianity, soul, theology, nonfiction, devotions upon emergent occasions, epistles, death, resurrection, corpse, afterlife, corporeality, deaths duell, sermon, verse, philosophy, criticism, separation, god, heaven, conversion, faith, eternal, eternity.

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During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, Jewish poets in Islamic Spain introduced philosophical themes into their devotional verse. Drawn to Neoplatonic thought, they made liberal use of its myth of the soul to explore the human relationship with the Divine. This novel merger reflected a conviction that ideas borrowed from Greco-Arabic philosophy meshed comfortably with traditional Jewish approaches to prayer and spirituality. This study focuses on Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Moses Ibn Ezra, Abraham Ibn Ezra, and Judah Halevi, polymath poets who also wrote philosophically-informed prose works. It probes the contemplative motifs in their religious verse, uncovering new and, at times, unorthodox layers of meaning. The book includes the Hebrew texts of representative poems accompanied by original English translations and detailed analyses.

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"Do women have souls? Christianity has traditionally held the soul to be the seat of reason, intelligence, humanity, immortality, and moral agency. But the Book of Genesis never says that God breathed a soul into Eve. Women's souls thus became significant in Reformation satires as Protestants and Catholics debated whether scripture alone or institutional authority ought to determine interpretation. In England, these satires eventually intersected with what scholars have called the "Trinitarian Controversy," a dispute about the nature of Christ that paralleled the interpretive difficulty regarding the nature of women's souls. In order to marginalize heterodox thinkers who claimed that Christ was not of the same substance as God the Father, orthodox Anglicans collapsed the distinction between schism and heresy by comparing heterodox Christians to a sexualized stereotype of Muslim despots. Part of this stereotype was the (erroneous) claim that Muslim doctrine asserted that women did not have souls and could only experience physical, not intellectual, pleasure. Thus, the problem of competing Christian biblical interpretations could be foisted onto a stereotype of Muslim men as brutal, self-serving misogynists. Englishwomen soon took up the trope to argue that a truly enlightened, and necessarily Christian, Englishman would support improvements in women's education--and feminist orientalism was born"--

English literature --- Women in literature. --- Soul in literature. --- Orientalism in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Litterature anglaise --- Âme --- Orientalisme (litterature) --- Orientbild --- Frauenliteratur --- English literature. --- Femmes dans la litterature. --- Âme dans la litterature. --- Orientalisme dans la litterature. --- Écrits de femmes anglais --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Women's writings, English --- Themes, motifs. --- Dans la litterature. --- Women authors. --- Histoire et critique. --- Female authors --- Zielke-Nadkarni, Andrea --- Women as literary characters --- Feminismus --- Feministische Literatur --- Frauendichtung --- Frau --- Literatur --- Bild --- Orient --- Motiv --- Littérature orientaliste --- Orient littéraire --- Orientalisme --- Orientalisme en littérature --- Orientalisme littéraire --- Littérature --- Âme (philosophie) --- Âme --- Contribution au concept d'âme --- Pneûma --- Psuché --- Psukhê --- Psyché --- Souffle --- Âme du monde --- Corps --- Esprit --- Intellect --- Intériorité --- Psychisme --- Réminiscence --- Immortalité --- Métaphysique --- Philosophie de l'homme --- Dans la littérature --- Esthétique --- Philosophie --- religion --- Nouvel âge --- philosophie --- Hövener, Andreas --- 2013