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Expressions of fear from antiquity to the contemporary world : papers of the March 30th, 2013 National Colloquium, Department of Classical Philology, University of Bucharest, Romania / edited by Maria-Luiza Dumitru Oancea, Ana-Cristina Halichias and Nicolae-Andrei Popa.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fear--Psychological aspects.
- Fear.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- "The volume offers a timely discussion of the feeling of fear, adopting a diachronic and complex perspective, taking into account its various forms, including its literary, mythological, anthropological, psychoanalytical, etymological, philosophical, theological, and historiographical representations, among others. It tackles the concept of fear in a range of time periods in cultural and literary history, from the Archaic Period and Greco-Roman Classical Antiquity to the modern and postmodern periods.As such, the volume marks an extremely relevant contribution to scholarship in the humanities, and will be of interest to scholars, professors, and students, as well as anyone interested in the analysis of profound human feelings."
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 11, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-9646-2
- OCLC:
- 952337275
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