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Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry
An examination of the ways in which late medieval lyric poetry can be seen to engage with contemporary medical theory. This book argues that late medieval love poets, from Petrarch to Machaut and Charles d'Orléans, exploit scientific models as a broad framework within which to redefine the limits of the lyric subject and his body. Just as humoraltheory depends upon principles of likes and contraries in order to heal, poetry makes possible a parallel therapeutic system in which verbal oppositions and substitutions counter or rewrite received medical wisdom. The specific case of blindness, a disability that according to the theories of love that predominated in the late medieval West foreclosed the possibility of love, serves as a laboratory in which to explore poets' circumvention of the logical limits of contemporary medical theory. Reclaiming the power of remedy from physicians, these late medieval French and Italian poets prompt us to rethink not only the relationship between scientific and literary authority at the close of the middle ages, but, more broadly speaking, the very notion of therapy. Julie Singer is Assistant Professor of French at Washington University, St Louis.
Dalla parte di Swann
Dalla memoria dell'infanzia inizia quel viaggio, quella promessa di felicità sulla quale Proust costruirà il suo capolavoro. Primo volume di Alla ricerca del tempo perduto, questo romanzo ha in sé tutti i temi che saranno percorsi nelle oltre quattromila pagine dell'"opera cattedrale": il ritorno alle atmosfere protettive della fanciullezza, con il celeberrimo episodio della madeleine intinta nel tè; la passione travolgente, vista qui attraverso l'amore tormentato di Charles Swann per Odette; la parola come rifugio e liberazione. Ritrovare il tempo non è impossibile, a patto di riuscire a ricreare un mondo letterario, un mondo interiore costruito sul filo della memoria.
The Lives of Michel Foucault
The classic biography of the radical French philosopher with a new afterword by acclaimed Foucault scholar Stuart Elden. When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential French philosopher since the end of World War II. His powerful studies of the creation of modern medicine, prisons, psychiatry, and other methods of classification have had a lasting impact on philosophers, historians, critics, and novelists the world over. But as public as he was in his militant campaigns on behalf of prisoners, dissidents, and homosexuals, he shrouded his personal life in mystery. In The Lives of Michel Foucault -- written with the full cooperation of Daniel Defert, Foucault's former lover -- David Macey gives the richest account to date of Foucault's life and work, informed as it is by the complex issues arising from his writings. In this new edition, Foucault scholar Stuart Elden has contributed a new afterword assessing the contribution of the biography in the light of more recent literature.
