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The Nature Of Melancholy
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Author : Jennifer Radden
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002
The Nature Of Melancholy written by Jennifer Radden and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Criticism categories.
Spanning 24 centuries, this anthology collects over 30 pieces of Western writing about melancholy and related conditions. It unravels an ongoing conversation across centuries and continents as thinkers interpret, respond, and build on each other's work.
Melancholy
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Author : F. László Földényi
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-01
Melancholy written by F. László Földényi and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with History categories.
"Földényi's extraordinary Melancholy ... part history of the term melancholy and part analysis of the melancholic disposition, explores many centuries to explore melancholy's ambiguities. Along the way Földényi discovers the unrecognized role melancholy may play as a source of energy and creativity in a well-examined life. Földényi begins with a tour of the history of the word melancholy, from ancient Greece to the medieval era, the Renaissance, and modern times. He finds the meaning of melancholy has always been ambiguous, even paradoxical. In our own times it may be regarded either as a psychic illness or a mood familiar to everyone. The author analyzes the complexities of melancholy and concludes that its dual nature reflects the inherent tension of birth and mortality. To understand the melancholic disposition is to find entry to some of the deepest questions one's life."--Amazon.com.
The Poetics Of Melancholy In Early Modern England
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Author : Douglas Trevor
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-09-30
The Poetics Of Melancholy In Early Modern England written by Douglas Trevor and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England explores how attitudes toward, and explanations of, human emotions change in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Typically categorized as 'literary' writers Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Robert Burton and John Milton were all active in the period's reappraisal of the single emotion that, due to their efforts, would become the passion most associated with the writing life: melancholy. By emphasising the shared concerns of the 'non-literary' and 'literary' texts produced by these figures, Douglas Trevor asserts that quintessentially 'scholarly' practices such as glossing texts and appending sidenotes shape the methods by which these same writers come to analyse their own moods. He also examines early modern medical texts, dramaturgical representations of learned depressives such as Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the opposition to materialistic accounts of the passions voiced by Neoplatonists such as Edmund Spenser.
The Melancholy Art
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Author : Michael Ann Holly
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-24
The Melancholy Art written by Michael Ann Holly and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-24 with Art categories.
Why the art historian's craft is a uniquely melancholy art Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft. Though the objects art historians study are materially present in our world, the worlds from which they come are forever lost to time. In this eloquent and inspiring book, Michael Ann Holly traces how this disjunction courses through the history of art and shows how it can give rise to melancholic sentiments in historians who write about art. She confronts pivotal and vexing questions in her discipline: Why do art historians write in the first place? What kinds of psychic exchanges occur between art objects and those who write about them? What institutional and personal needs does art history serve? What is lost in historical writing about art? The Melancholy Art looks at how melancholy suffuses the work of some of the twentieth century's most powerful and poetic writers on the history of art, including Alois Riegl, Franz Wickhoff, Adrian Stokes, Michael Baxandall, Meyer Schapiro, and Jacques Derrida. A disarmingly personal meditation by one of our most distinguished art historians, this book explains why to write about art is to share in a kind of intertwined pleasure and loss that is the very essence of melancholy.
Sadness And Melancholy In German Language Literature And Culture
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Author : Mary Cosgrove
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2012
Sadness And Melancholy In German Language Literature And Culture written by Mary Cosgrove and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on "Sadness and Melancholy in German-language Literature and Culture," volume 6 investigates the often subversive function and meaning of sadness and melancholy in German-language literature and culture from the seventeenth century to the present where, arguably, it has fallen from the heights of melancholy genius and artistic creativity of earlier epochs to become the embarrassing other of a Western civilization that prizes happiness as the mark of successful modern living. Interrogating the distinction between sadness as an anthropological constant and melancholy as a shifting cultural discourse, the contributions explore how different authors use established literary and cultural topoi from melancholy discourses to comment on topics as diverse as war, religion, gender inequality, and modernity. As well as essays on canonical figures including Goethe and Thomas Mann, the volume features studies of sadness in lesser-known writers such as Betty Paoli and Julia Schoch. -- From publisher's website.
The Anatomy Of Melancholy
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Author : Robert Burton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1836
The Anatomy Of Melancholy written by Robert Burton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1836 with Melancholy categories.
Melancholy Experience In Literature Of The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : A. Ingram
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-04-12
Melancholy Experience In Literature Of The Long Eighteenth Century written by A. Ingram and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience.
The Anatomy Of Melancholy What It Is
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Author : Robert Burton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
The Anatomy Of Melancholy What It Is written by Robert Burton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Melancholy categories.
Melancholy Love And Time
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Author : Peter Toohey
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2004-01-06
Melancholy Love And Time written by Peter Toohey and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-06 with Art categories.
An examination of the effects and meaning of emotional states of distress in ancient literature
A Field Guide To Melancholy
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Author : Jacky Bowring
language : en
Publisher: No Exit Press
Release Date : 2008
A Field Guide To Melancholy written by Jacky Bowring and has been published by No Exit Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Philosophy categories.
A depressive illness or a passing feeling? Mental detachment or a precursor to genius? Melancholy is a critical part of what it is to be human, yet everything from Prozac to self-help psychology books seem intent on removing all signs of sadness from contemporary existence. Complex and contradictory, melancholy's presence weaves through the histories of both science and art. This guide surveys literature, art, film, music and architecture, finding melancholy everywhere it turns.