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Plague And Pleasure
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Author : Arthur White
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2014-12
Plague And Pleasure written by Arthur White and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Plague and Pleasure is a lively popular history that introduces a new hypothesis about the impetus behind the cultural change in Renaissance Italy. The Renaissance coincided with a period of chronic, constantly recurring plague, unremitting warfare and pervasive insecurity. Consequently, people felt a need for mental escape to alternative, idealized realities, distant in time or space from the unendurable present but made vivid to the imagination through literature, art, and spectacle.
Plague And Pleasure
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Author : Margaret Franklin
language : en
Publisher: HP Trade
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Plague And Pleasure written by Margaret Franklin and has been published by HP Trade this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Plague categories.
Love And Sex In The Time Of Plague
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Author : Guido Ruggiero
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-01
Love And Sex In The Time Of Plague written by Guido Ruggiero and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with History categories.
As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and grieving a symphony of life and love. For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an end. In 1348 the first wave of the Black Death swept across the Italian city, reducing its population from more than 100,000 to less than 40,000. The disease would eventually kill at least half of the population of Europe. Amid the devastation, Giovanni BoccaccioÕs Decameron was born. One of the masterpieces of world literature, the Decameron has captivated centuries of readers with its vivid tales of love, loyalty, betrayal, and sex. Despite the death that overwhelmed Florence, BoccaccioÕs collection of novelle was, in Guido RuggieroÕs words, a Òsymphony of life.Ó Love and Sex in the Time of Plague guides twenty-first-century readers back to BoccaccioÕs world to recapture how his work sounded to fourteenth-century ears. Through insightful discussions of the DecameronÕs cherished stories and deep portraits of Florentine culture, Ruggiero explores love and sexual relations in a society undergoing convulsive change. In the century before the plague arrived, Florence had become one of the richest and most powerful cities in Europe. With the medieval nobility in decline, a new polity was emerging, driven by Il PopoloÑthe people, fractious and enterprising. BoccaccioÕs stories had a special resonance in this age of upheaval, as Florentines sought new notions of truth and virtue to meet both the despair and the possibility of the moment.
Pleasure Plague Pain
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Author : Kelsins Santos
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-06-16
Pleasure Plague Pain written by Kelsins Santos and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-16 with categories.
Soaked in the chaotic waters of late adolescence, Kels slowly spins a disjointed tail of love, loss, growth and understanding within the verses of "Pleasure, Plague & Pain". Seeking deeper understanding in a millennial world, the concepts that title this book enter a vicious cycle of definition, destruction, and reconciliation. Never truly satisfied, the author explores a landscape of turbulent relationships with others, himself, and the surrounding world and their overall ability to be as transformative, as they are stagnant. The chaos, injury and hope of late adolescence permeates throughout this book, in search of a larger solution, or perhaps peace in the fact that there is no solution at all.
The White Plague
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Author : Frank Herbert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The White Plague written by Frank Herbert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with categories.
Cherry Violet
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Author : Anne Manning
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
Cherry Violet written by Anne Manning and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1853 with Plague categories.
Cats In The City Of Plague
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Author : A. L. Marlow
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2021-11-03
Cats In The City Of Plague written by A. L. Marlow and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-03 with Fiction categories.
Fans of Tad Williams's Tailchaser's Song and Richard Adams's Watership Down, add Cats in the City of Plague to your list of favorite books. Set amidst the chaos of the worst pandemic in history, the Black Death of the 14th century, Cats in the City of Plague tells the tale of a group of cats who are unfairly blamed for the plague. The main character, Leander, and his fellow cats cannot understand why people they have trusted have turned against them. But they realize that their only hope of survival is to escape from the French city that has long been their home and return to the forests where, cat legend has it, their kind originally lived. While evading the humans who seek to destroy them, the cats embark on what Booklife calls “a tense and dramatic journey through the city, powered by the danger and sacrifice inherent in tales of epic quests.” Racing over rooftops, hiding in the cathedral’s crypt, can they make it out of the city before dawn reveals them? And if they do make it, can these city cats learn to live in the wild? The setting of a great pandemic will resonate with modern readers, but it’s the flight of these intrepid cats that makes Cats in the City of Plague an unforgettable story.
To Blight With Plague
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Author : Barbara Fass Leavy
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1993-08
To Blight With Plague written by Barbara Fass Leavy and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
"A sensitive, intelligent book." —Sander L. Gilman, Professor of Humane Studies, Cornell University How is AIDS treated in the contemporary plays of Larry Kramer and William Hoffman? How important is the Black Death to a reader of Boccaccio's Decameron? How have the historical and current outbreaks of contagious disease affected the creation of literature, and how has this literature in turn shaped our response to disease? Original and moving, To Blight with Plague addresses these and other central questions raised by literary works whose main themes revolve around contagious, epidemic disease and its social and psychological consequences.
The Plague
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Author : Jacqueline Rose
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2023-08-01
The Plague written by Jacqueline Rose and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A slim, heart-wrenching, and rousing new book from the leading feminist writer Jacqueline Rose. In early 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began to infiltrate public consciousness, sales of The Plague, the classic novel by French philosopher Albert Camus, skyrocketed. At the same time, the virus’s toll surged exponentially. Amid the harrowing loss, many sensed a glimmer of possibility—the potential for radical empathy wrought by shared experience—even as the death-dealing divisions of class, race, gender, and citizenship were underscored like never before. We have been through a time of ‘living death’ when, for millions across the globe, untold horror has seemed to infiltrate the very air we breathe. Jacqueline Rose’s trenchant new book unravels recent history via the lives and works of three extraordinary thinkers—Albert Camus, Sigmund Freud, and Simone Weil, each one afflicted by catastrophe. Their politics and private griefs, the depth of their understanding, fling open a window into our present crises. Rose, one of the most insightful thinkers on politics and psychoanalysis alike, has written a story of unusual range, spanning World War II to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, surging domestic violence to emboldened anti-racist protest, the Spanish influenza to Omicron, Boris Johnson’s deranged optimism to Vladimir Putin’s megalomania. The Plague: Living Death In Our Times enacts a psychic reckoning for our moment and for the future to be forged in its aftermath.
Living For Pleasure
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Author : Emily A. Austin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-11
Living For Pleasure written by Emily A. Austin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11 with categories.
If we all want happiness and pleasure so much, then why are we so bad at getting it? Pleasure feels amazing! Anxiety, however, does not. The Ancient Greek Philosopher Epicurus rolled these two strikingly intuitive claims into a simple formula for happiness and well-being--pursue pleasure without causing yourself anxiety. But wait, is that even possible? Can humans achieve lasting pleasure without suffering anxiety about failure and loss? Epicurus thinks we can, at least once we learn to pursue pleasure thoughtfully. In Living for Pleasure, philosopher Emily Austin offers a lively, jargon-free tour of Epicurean strategies for diminishing anxiety, achieving satisfaction, and relishing joys. Epicurean science was famously far ahead of its time, and Austin shows that so was its ethics and psychology. Epicureanism can help us make and keep good friends, prepare for suffering, combat imposter syndrome, build trust, recognize personal limitations, value truth, cultivate healthy attitudes towards money and success, manage political anxiety, develop gratitude, savor food, and face death. Readers will walk away knowing more about an important school of philosophy, but moreover understanding how to get what they want in life--happiness--without the anxiety of striving for it.