Description - Heart by Gail Godwin
To humans, the heart has always been more than flesh and blood. Rising above its biological function, it has, instead, become the symbol of our emotions. Fear, sadness, anger, love, restlessness, discernment, foreboding, pleasure, longing, comfort, pride, despair - all that signifies passion and the human spirit are the domain of the heart. Gail Godwin takes us on a journey 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 this icon. Godwin's explorations and meditations track the themes of the heart in life, legend and in art: from the first drawings of the "heart-shaped" heart to the first valentine, from "Gilgamesh" to Confucius, from the heart of darkness to wearing ones heart on one's sleeve.
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