The Amorous Heart
The symmetrical, exuberant heart is everywhere: it gives shape to candy, pendants, the frothy milk on top of a cappuccino, and much else. She argues that the symbol reveals a tension between love as romantic and sexual on the one hand, and as religious and spiritual on the other.… Celý popis ↓
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The Amorous Heart
The symmetrical, exuberant heart is everywhere: it gives shape to candy, pendants, the frothy milk on top of a cappuccino, and much else. She argues that the symbol reveals a tension between love as romantic and sexual on the one hand, and as religious and spiritual on the other. How can we explain the ubiquity of what might be the most recognizable symbol in the world?In The Amorous Heart, Marilyn Yalom tracks the heart metaphor and heart iconography across two thousand years, through Christian theology, pagan love poetry, medieval painting, Shakespearean drama, Enlightenment science, and into the present.
Ultimately, the heart symbol is a guide to the astonishing variety of human affections, from the erotic to the chaste and from the unrequited to the conjugal.
Parametre
- Autor
- Marilyn Yalom
- Počet strán
- 288
- Rok vydania
- 2018
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