MARC Record from Marygrove College

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008 920122s1992 nyu b 000 0 eng
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050 00 $aCT9990$b.D8613 1992
082 00 $a302/.17$220
049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aDunning, A. J.
240 10 $aUitersten.$lEnglish
245 10 $aExtremes :$breflections on human behavior /$cA.J. Dunning ; translated from the Dutch by Johan Theron.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarcourt Brace Jovanovich,$c©1992.
300 $aix, 207 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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500 $aTranslation of: Uitersten.
500 $a"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 203-207).
505 0 $aExtremes: A Mirror -- Extremes of the Heart. The Burning Heart. Heart Transplants. The Neurotic Heart. Soldier's Heart -- Extremes of Men and Knives. The Perfect Crime. The Anatomy Lesson. Eternal Youth. "Viva il Coltello" -- Extremes of Faith. Parthenogenesis. Heretics. Anorexia Religiosa -- Extremes of the Senses. A Taste for Cabin Boys. In the Land of the Blind. False Paradises.
520 $aDutch cardiologist A.J. Dunning brings a wry wit and an impressive knowledge of art, literature, and religion to his essays on the sublime and the monstrous in society. He writes of Joan of Arc and Gilles de Rais, who were brought together in the service of their king and eventually burnt at the stake: one is a martyr, one as a pederast mass murderer. He compares a seventeenth-century nun's veneration of the heart with that of the first surgeons who performed heart.
520 $aTransplants. He gives the clinical facts behind Gustav Mahler's fatal sore throat, Sigmund Freud's cocaine addiction, and Charlotte Corday's assassination of Marat in his bath. He tells of the practice in England of body-snatching for science, and of the practice in Italy of castrating young boys for music. He discusses parthenogenesis, the use of hormones in the search for eternal youth, and mystifying fatigue syndromes in different countries and generations. The.
520 $aInvention of Braille. The satanic verse of Baudelaire. The atrocious eating habits of medieval saints and modern teenage girls. Informative, entertaining, preposterous tales - all documented, all true - of how unnatural human nature can be.
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
590 $bInternet Archive 2
650 0 $aEccentrics and eccentricities.
650 0 $aCharacters and characteristics.
650 0 $aHuman behavior.
650 7 $aCharacters and characteristics.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00852293
650 7 $aEccentrics and eccentricities.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00901271
650 7 $aHuman behavior.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00962811
776 08 $iOnline version:$aDunning, A. J.$sUitersten. English.$tExtremes.$b1st U.S. ed.$dNew York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1992$w(OCoLC)988547619
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