title: The Book of the Heart
author:  Eric Jager 
description: Jager (The Tempter's Voice) explicates a historical, linguistic model by which humans have created a "metaphor of selfhood" based on the written word. The chapters that concentrate on Augustine and the medieval period, covering both secular and religious writings, provide in-depth analysis of the ways metaphors of the heart and of text written about the heart came to refer to selfhood. It is in the first and final chapters that Jager falls short. In his coverage of the writings of ancient Greeks and Romans, the scriptural writings of the early Christian period, and the Renaissance and modern periods he becomes far more cursory and loses his focus. While the concluding chapter on the current linguistic move away from textual metaphors toward those based on computer and film is interesting, it draws attention away from his argument. Well written but scholarly in tone, this work probably has limited appeal to those who are not scholars or students of medieval literature. Recommended for academic libraries.DKaren E.S. Lempert, Facing History and Ourselves, Brookline, MA <br />Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  #  A Forbidden Fondness of The Heart
  
  
  
  
  
  A WESTERN ROMANCE NOVEL
  
  
  
  
  
  ELAINE SHIELDS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Elaine Shields
  
  
  
  
  
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  #  Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [A Forbidden Fondness of The Heart](part0000_split_000.html#_Toc48630523)
  
  
  [Table of Contents](part0000_split_002.html#_Toc48630524)
  
  
  [A Forbidden Fondness of The Heart](part0000_split_003.html#_Toc48630525)
  
  
  [Introduction](part0000_split_004.html#_Toc48630526)
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0000_split_005.html#_Toc48630527)
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0000_split_006.html