Discourses of anger in the early modern period
Early modern anger is informed by fundamental paradoxes: qualified as a sin since the Middle Ages, it was still attributed a valuable function in the service of restoring social order; at the same time, the fight against one's own anger was perceived as exceedingly difficult. And while it was s...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill
[2015]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, v. 40. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42530635*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Notes on the Editors; Notes on the Contributors; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1 Introduction: Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period; Chapter 2 Feeling Rage: The Transformation of the Concept of Anger in Eighteenth Century Germany; Part 1 Anger Management in Early Modern Philosophical Discourses; Chapter 3 Neo-Stoicism as an Antidote to Public Violence before Lipsius's De constantia: Johann Weyer's (Wier's) Anger Therapy, De ira morbo (1577); Chapter 4 Anger Management and the Rhetoric of Authenticity in Montaigne's De la colère (II, 31).
- Chapter 5 Neostoic Anger: Lipsius's Reading and Useof Seneca's Tragedies and De iraChapter 6 Descartes' Notion of Anger: Aspects of a Possible History of its Premises; Chapter 7 Holy Desperation and Sanctified Wrath: Anger in Puritan Thought; Part 2 Learned Debates about Anger; Chapter 8 Anger and its Limits in the Ethical Philosophy of Giovanni Pontano; Chapter 9 Northern Anger: Early Modern Debates on Berserkers; Chapter 10 Anger and the Unity of Philosophy: Interlocking Discourses of Natural and Moral Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment.
- Part 3 Anger in Literary Discourses: Epic and DramaChapter 11 Iustas in iras? Perspectives on Anger as a Driving Force in Neo-Latin Epic; Chapter 12 Epic Anger in La Gerusalemme liberata: Rinaldo's Irascibility and Tasso's Allegoria della Gerusalemme; Chapter 13 'In Zoren zu wütiger Rach': Angry Women and Men in the German Drama of the Reformation Period; Chapter 14 Pierre Corneille's Cinna ou la clémence d'Augustein Light of Contemporary Discourses on Anger (Descartes, Le Moyne, Senault); Part 4 Visual Representations of Anger.
- Chapter 15 Visual Representations of Medea's Anger in the Early Modern Period: Rembrandt and RubensPart 5 Anger in Political Discourses; Chapter 16 Negotiating with 'Spirits of Brimstone and Saltpetre': Seventeenth Century French Political Officials and Their Practices and Representations of Anger; Chapter 17 Narratives of Reconciliation in Early Modern England: Between Oblivion, Clemency and Forgiveness; Part 6 Transcultural Notions of Anger; Chapter 18 Royal Wrath: Curbing the Anger of the Sultan; Chapter 19 Anger and Rage in Traditional Chinese Culture; Index Nominum.
