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The Story of Joy
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From the Bible to Late Romanticism
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521178419
Veröffentl:
2011
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
07.01.2011
Seiten:
320
Autor:
Adam Potkay
Gewicht:
522 g
Format:
229x152x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
A highly original and hugely enjoyable literary and cultural history of joy from ancient times to the present.
Preface; Introduction: what is a joy?; 1. Religious joy: the ethics of oneness from the Bible to Aquinas; 2. Erotic joy: the Troubadour tradition; 3. The theology of joy and joylessness: Luther to Crusoe; 4. Ethical joy in the Age of Enlightenment; 5. The joys of doing and of being: Wordsworth and his Victorian legacy; 6. Joy and aesthetics: Coleridge to Wilde; 7. Post-Christian prophesies of forgiveness and exaltation; 8. Tragic joy and the spirit of music: Wagner, Nietzsche, Yeats; Conclusion: the career of joy in the twentieth century; Bibliography; Index.