Heart In Flames
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The Feeling Heart in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author: Katie Barclay
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date: 2019-12-02
The heart is an iconic symbol in the medieval and early modern European world. In addition to being a physical organ, it is a key conceptual device related to emotions, cognition, the self and identity, and the body. The heart is read as a metaphor for human desire and will, and situated in opposition to or alongside reason and cognition. In medieval and early modern Europe, the “feeling heart” – the heart as the site of emotion and emotional practices – informed a broad range of art, literature, music, heraldry, medical texts, and devotional and ritual practices. This multidisciplinary collection brings together art historians, literary scholars, historians, theologians, and musicologists to highlight the range of meanings attached to the symbol of the heart, the relationship between physical and metaphorical representations of the heart, and the uses of the heart in the production of identities and communities in medieval and early modern Europe.
The Heart in Winter
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FROM THE ECONOMIST AND STAR TRIBUNE • Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana. “An absolute belter of a book!” – Anne Enright "A wedding of Cormac McCarthy with Flann O’Brien; a western but also the most Irish of novels; a tragedy written as farce . . . inspiring joy with every incident, every concept, every sentence." —The Guardian October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad-maker of the town, but also a doper, a drinker, and a fearsome degenerate. Just as he feels his life is heading nowhere fast, Polly Gillespie arrives in town as the new bride of the extremely devout mine captain Long Anthony Harrington. A thunderbolt love affair takes spark between Tom and Polly and they strike out west on a stolen horse, moving through the badlands of Montana and Idaho, and briefly an idyll of wild romance perfects itself. But a posse of deranged Cornish gunmen are soon in hot pursuit and closing in fast. With everything to lose and the safety and anonymity of San Francisco still a distant speck on their horizon, the choices they make will haunt them for the rest of their lives. In this love story for the ages—lyrical, profane, and propulsive—Kevin Barry has once again demonstrated himself to be a master stylist, an unrivalled humourist, and a true poet of the human heart.
The Dark Light: Amethyst Heart in the City
Pratik has never rode on Seltion, soaring along with the stream of wind. He knows nothing of Solus Jungle, has never seen any magical books, and has never hexed at anyone. All he knows is a boring and miserable life with his boring uncle. His lives with him — in the Golstide City — next of which is standing an elusive old house, which haunts his curiosity. But all that is about to change when he penetrates the walls of that elusive house next his home and receives magical books. Then while reading it, he gets a magical call from a man — a retired wizard, who forewarns him of an inevitable danger, and urges him to meet, calls him in Solus, where he lives. Pratik commences his journey to Solus along with his uncle, finds Lamashma — a dreadful merciless demon — threatening Hereaws. They stand on to rescue those cute creatures. In next, they meet with second danger, the Witch, who is cursed and wants to be curseless by using Amethyst Heart that lies to an incredible place no one knows about . . . and last but not the least, The Decider, Kaal, who conspires to kill him. Will Pratik be able to defend himself or Will Kaal succeed in his intention? Will The Witch find Amethyst Heart?