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- catalog abstract ""What is heart? It is the muscle of life, sending our most vital fluid coursing through our veins to every hungry part of our being. It is what keeps us striving against impossible odds; that fortifying something that is the cornerstone of every triumph. It elates us when we discover love and pains us greatly when that love is lost or proves unrequited. It is a gentleness that colors what we give to others. It is a symbol that we see on greeting cards: a small, red shape that was drawn on the wall of a cave in Spain more than 12,000 years ago. In this truly remarkable work, bestselling author Gail Godwin takes us on a breathtaking journey of the heart that spans the entire history of human civilization, combining literature, myth, religion, philosophy, medicine, the fine arts, and intensely personal stories from the writer's own past to explore the full and complex character of that unique symbol. Beginning with intelligence and wit, Godwin's explorations and meditations brilliantly track themes of the heart in life, legend, and art--from the first valentine to the first stethoscope, from Gilgamesh to Confucius, from the heart of darkness to wearing one's heart on one's sleeve."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11997479.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""What is heart? It is the muscle of life, sending our most vital fluid coursing through our veins to every hungry part of our being. It is what keeps us striving against impossible odds; that fortifying something that is the cornerstone of every triumph. It elates us when we discover love and pains us greatly when that love is lost or proves unrequited. It is a gentleness that colors what we give to others. It is a symbol that we see on greeting cards: a small, red shape that was drawn on the wall of a cave in Spain more than 12,000 years ago. In this truly remarkable work, bestselling author Gail Godwin takes us on a breathtaking journey of the heart that spans the entire history of human civilization, combining literature, myth, religion, philosophy, medicine, the fine arts, and intensely personal stories from the writer's own past to explore the full and complex character of that unique symbol. Beginning with intelligence and wit, Godwin's explorations and meditations brilliantly track themes of the heart in life, legend, and art--from the first valentine to the first stethoscope, from Gilgamesh to Confucius, from the heart of darkness to wearing one's heart on one's sleeve."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "The rhythms that count -- pt. 1. The heart through time. The elephant with a heart -- Heart shape -- The Sumerians -- The Egyptians: an ancient boy's heart -- The Hebrews -- The Hindus : The Upanishads ; Religious heart / romantic heart: the Hindu connection ; The chakras -- Siddhartha Gautama: the Buddha -- The Chinese : Confucius ; Lao-tzu and the Tao te ching ; Heart ideas in Chinese medicine -- The Japanese : Haiku -- The Greeks : The durable heart of baby Dionysus Zagreus ; The heart separates from the head: the fathers of philosophy ; Socrates -- Jesus of Nazareth -- Muhammed, prophet of Islam -- St. Augustine: the autobiogrpahical heart -- The romantic heart: from courtly love to valentines : The troubadours ; Chrétien de Troyes ; The heart of Heloise ; The valentine -- The great heart split of the seventeenth century : William Harvey ; The first stethoscope ; St. Teresa's heart preserved in alcohol ; The nun who popularized the sacred heart of Jesus ; Blaise Pascal -- Hard times and where is the heart? The industrial revolution to the present : A recapitulation -- Heart signs in these times? : Books with heart ; Open-heart occupations.".
- catalog description "pt. 2. Heart themes in life and art. Heartbreak : Terminal: my brother's story ; Avenged through art : George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" and Elizabeth Bowen's "The death of the heart" ; Heartbreak observed: C.S. Lewis -- Absence of heart / heartlessness : Invalids of Eros: Gilbert Osmond in "The portrait of a lady" ; Am I one? ; Pockets of heart-absence -- The heart of darkness : What and where is it? ; Witness-explorers of the heart of darkness ; Inanna's descent ; Inanna, Marlow, and Kurtz ; Safe conduct out of the heart of darkness ; "My heart of darkness": personal stories -- Change of heart / conversion of heart : Sudden, violent, dramatic, radical ; "It's a phrase we use when we don't feel the same anymore": a brief etymology ; Lovers who stop loving ; Heart work: the heart in pilgrimage (Rilke, Yeats, Herbert) -- The heart in love : Shakespeare's heart in love ; Two old hearts, still entwined: Baucis and Philemon ; Two old hearts survive Swiftian satire ;Two old hearts, evicted by Faust the land developer, are incinerated ; Two old hearts leave us a legacy ; Holy Eros: the mystic heart in love: Teresa of Avila ; How she changed ; Completing love's guest list: love of self.".
- catalog description "pt. 3. Hospitality of heart. Heather's parties -- Toward more consciousness of heart -- A Jesuit scientist and his "converging hearts": Pierre Teilhard de Chardin : "The heart grows a new skin" ; The heart of "the heart of things" -- An all-around heart: Paul Klee; The "heart pictures."".
- catalog extent "xii, 308 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0380977958 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : William Morrow,".
- catalog subject "700/.453 21".
- catalog subject "GR489.4 .G63 2001".
- catalog subject "Heart Folklore.".
- catalog subject "Heart Symbolic aspects.".
- catalog subject "Heart in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The rhythms that count -- pt. 1. The heart through time. The elephant with a heart -- Heart shape -- The Sumerians -- The Egyptians: an ancient boy's heart -- The Hebrews -- The Hindus : The Upanishads ; Religious heart / romantic heart: the Hindu connection ; The chakras -- Siddhartha Gautama: the Buddha -- The Chinese : Confucius ; Lao-tzu and the Tao te ching ; Heart ideas in Chinese medicine -- The Japanese : Haiku -- The Greeks : The durable heart of baby Dionysus Zagreus ; The heart separates from the head: the fathers of philosophy ; Socrates -- Jesus of Nazareth -- Muhammed, prophet of Islam -- St. Augustine: the autobiogrpahical heart -- The romantic heart: from courtly love to valentines : The troubadours ; Chrétien de Troyes ; The heart of Heloise ; The valentine -- The great heart split of the seventeenth century : William Harvey ; The first stethoscope ; St. Teresa's heart preserved in alcohol ; The nun who popularized the sacred heart of Jesus ; Blaise Pascal -- Hard times and where is the heart? The industrial revolution to the present : A recapitulation -- Heart signs in these times? : Books with heart ; Open-heart occupations.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 2. Heart themes in life and art. Heartbreak : Terminal: my brother's story ; Avenged through art : George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" and Elizabeth Bowen's "The death of the heart" ; Heartbreak observed: C.S. Lewis -- Absence of heart / heartlessness : Invalids of Eros: Gilbert Osmond in "The portrait of a lady" ; Am I one? ; Pockets of heart-absence -- The heart of darkness : What and where is it? ; Witness-explorers of the heart of darkness ; Inanna's descent ; Inanna, Marlow, and Kurtz ; Safe conduct out of the heart of darkness ; "My heart of darkness": personal stories -- Change of heart / conversion of heart : Sudden, violent, dramatic, radical ; "It's a phrase we use when we don't feel the same anymore": a brief etymology ; Lovers who stop loving ; Heart work: the heart in pilgrimage (Rilke, Yeats, Herbert) -- The heart in love : Shakespeare's heart in love ; Two old hearts, still entwined: Baucis and Philemon ; Two old hearts survive Swiftian satire ;Two old hearts, evicted by Faust the land developer, are incinerated ; Two old hearts leave us a legacy ; Holy Eros: the mystic heart in love: Teresa of Avila ; How she changed ; Completing love's guest list: love of self.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 3. Hospitality of heart. Heather's parties -- Toward more consciousness of heart -- A Jesuit scientist and his "converging hearts": Pierre Teilhard de Chardin : "The heart grows a new skin" ; The heart of "the heart of things" -- An all-around heart: Paul Klee; The "heart pictures."".
- catalog title "Heart : a personal journey through its myths and meanings / by Gail Godwin.".
- catalog type "Folklore. fast".
- catalog type "text".