Primitive Love and Love-StoriesGood Press, 09.12.2019 - 821 Seiten "Primitive Love and Love-Stories" by Henry T. Finck Henry Theophilus Finck was an American music critic and author. Among "the most prolific and influential critics of his day." In this book, he takes his critical eye and turns it to the sentiment of love. He begins by giving readers a short history of the beginning of love stories dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks and how they inspired future writers. He then moves on to how writing about love changed over time and even what romantic love can even be defined as. |
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LOVESTORIES | |
HISTORY OF AN IDEA | |
characters in his historic novel An Egyptian Princess express | |
Anacreon and Others | |
Woman and Love in Euripides | |
Romantic Love Greek Style | |
Amazonian Ideal of Greek Womanhood | |
Greek Love in Africa | |
Theocritus and Callimachus | |
Short Stories | |
Hero and Leander | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX OF AUTHORS | |
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