| Writing as Medication in Early Modern France: Literary Consciousness and Medical Culture Contributor(s): Heitsch, Dorothea (Author) |
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ISBN: 3825367142 ISBN-13: 9783825367145 Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter OUR PRICE: $61.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Series: Regensburger Beitrage Zur Gender-Forschung |
| Physical Information: 261 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this study, the author examines fifteenth- to seventeenth-century French authors who treat writing as a process of medication and whose literary production effectively yields a therapeutic substance. Through reference to Plato, Aristotle, Galen, Ficino, and advocates of alternatives to Western medicine such as John Mesue and Leone Ebreo, these writers emphasize the material/gendered soul and the role of the body in cognitive functions, illustrating knowledge as a result of physical interaction. The study explores Helisenne de Crenne alongside the 'pneumo-physiology' of Galen and the 'dolce stil novo', Rabelaisian anatomy together with the anti-Arabist Champier, and debates among natural philosophical poets on the transmigration of souls. The author also considers Marie de Gournay in relation to Juan Huarte's humoral theory and Jean d'Espagnet's alchemical philosophy, as well as Michel de Montaigne's interest in Jacques Dubois's Arab-influenced approaches to medicine. |