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Story of Joy

Name: Story of Joy
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 02024800
Price: 62.32 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Adam Potkay
ISBN: 9780521178419

From the Bible to Late Romanticism

Adam Potkay

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 02024800

Publishers Cambridge University Press, March 2011

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Joy is an experience of reunion or fulfilment, of desire at least temporarily laid to rest, of a good thing that comes to pass or seems sure to happen soon. In this wide-ranging and highly original book Adam Potkay explores the concept of joy, distinguishing it from related concepts such as happiness and ecstasy. He goes on to trace the literary and intellectual history of joy in the Western tradition, from Aristotle, the Bible and Provencal troubadours through contemporary culture, centring on British and German works from the Reformation through Romanticism. Describing the complex interconnections between literary art, ethics, and religion, Potkay offers fresh readings of Spenser, Shakespeare, Fielding, Schiller, English Romantic poets, Wilde and Yeats. Winner of the 2009 Harry Levin prize, The Story of Joy will be of special interest to scholars of the Renaissance to the late Romantic period, but will also appeal to readers interested in the changing perceptions of joy over time.